Aristodemo Costoli

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Pegasus
Cavour monument in Ancona

Aristodemo Costoli (born July 6, 1803 in Florence , † June 22, 1871 ibid) was an Italian sculptor and painter.

Life and works

Aristodemo Costoli was a son of the painter Francesco Costoli and his wife Anna Masoni.

He studied at the Florentine Academy under P. Ermini, G. Bezzuoli and P. Benvenuti. In 1824 he exhibited a relief entitled Paris in the Academy. He then received a four-year scholarship that allowed him to continue his education in Rome . His statues of Dying Menoikeus and Jeremias the Prophet were made in Rome . The Dying Menoikeus , created in 1830, was exhibited in Paris in 1867 .

On his return to Florence he became an assistant teacher at the academy. After Lorenzo Bartolini died in 1850, he took his place. In Florence in 1841 he created a Pegasus , which was placed in the Giardini di Boboli , and in 1842 a statue of Galileo Galilei for the Natural History Museum, which he later made a second time so that it could be placed in the colonnade of the Uffizi .

In 1843 he was with the cleanup and restoration of the David of Michelangelo busy, the little toe of his right foot he reconstructed. However, his attempts at cleaning seriously attacked the figure's marble .

In 1845 A Gladiator was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London . The first pain was a job that was based on Bartolini's trust in God . The Allegory of Prudence, a base figure of Columbus monument in Genoa , also comes from Costolis hand like the relief Columbus in America ashore continuously , which also belongs to this monument. His design for a Columbus monument was executed in both bronze and marble; a bronze cast ended up in the Palazzo Pitti , while larger marble versions were shipped to the USA. Costoli was also the creator of the Cavour monument in Ancona and various busts: his bust of the Archbishop Incontri is in the Cathedral of Volterra . He immortalized King Victor Emmanuel in a colossal statue.

He also created a number of grave monuments, such as B. one for Count Gherardesca and one for Senator Potenani, which were placed in the cloister of Santa Croce . The tomb for Princess Kotschubey was delivered to St. Petersburg .

Costoli's self-portrait is in the Uffizi Gallery.

With his wife Lorenza Martini he had their son Leopoldo in 1847 , who also embarked on a career as an artist.

literature

Web links

Commons : Aristodemo Costoli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Carol Bradley:  Costoli, Aristodemo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 30:  Cosattini – Crispolto. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1984.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Schorn (Ed.): Kunstblatt . 6th year. Cotta, Stuttgart / Tübingen 1825, section Florence , p. 56 ( books.google.com - but mentions Paris as early as 1820).
  3. ^ Susanna Bracci: Exploring David. Diagnostic Tests and State of Conservation . Giunti Editore, Florence 2004, ISBN 88-09-03325-6 , pp. 61 ( books.google.com ).
  4. ^ John T. Paoletti: Michelangelo's David: Florentine History and Civic Identity . Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-316-24013-7 , p. 114.
  5. ↑ Eric Scigliano: Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara . Simon and Schuster, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4165-9135-1 , p. 105 f.
personal data
SURNAME Costoli, Aristodemo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1871
Place of death Florence