Benedetto Cacciatori

Bust of Benedetto Cacciatoris at the Palazzo di Brera in Milan

Benedetto Cacciatori (born December 29, 1794 in Carrara ; † September 25, 1871 there ) was an Italian sculptor .

Life

The Cacciatoris tomb, which he created himself, on the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan

Benedetto Cacciatori received his first training from his father, the sculptor Ludovico Cacciatori († 1854), and then attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara with Lorenzo Bartolini . In 1810 his father brought him to Milan and entrusted him to Camillo Pacetti , a representative of classicism , at the Accademia di Brera . In 1817 he received the first prize of the academy for his design Hercules wrests the Dejanira from the centaur Nessus .

At a young age he received commissions from Maria Christina of Savoy for the castle of Agliè and from Karl Felix for the Hautecombe Abbey in Savoy, for which he made numerous statues with the help of his father and brother Candido.

Until 1860 he taught as a professor at the Accademia di Brera. Among his students were Vincenzo Vela and Francesco Barzaghi .

Cacciatori created numerous statues, monuments and tombs in Lombardy and Piedmont . His works are based on the classicist style of Pacetti, but also show Bartolini's influences with elements of reflection on the Renaissance .

Works

Luigi Cagnola statue in Milan

Stauten in the Hautecombe Abbey , around 1830
Statues of Minerva and Mercury at Porta Venezia , Milan, 1831
Reliefs Entry Franz I and surrender of Dresden , allegories of the rivers Po and Ticino , statues of Mars and Minerva, two winged goddesses of victory, Arco della Pace , Milan, 1827–1838
Figure Carlo Alberto, Madonna and Child, sarcophagi for Amadeo VIII. And Emmanuele Filiberto, S. Sindone burial chapel of the Savoy Royal Family in Turin Cathedral , 1838–1843
Monument to Luigi Cagnola , Palazzo di Brera , Milan, 1849
Pietà, San Sebastiano Church, Milan, 1865
Monument to Luigi Canina , Piazza Santo Stefano, Casale Monferrato , 1865
Statue of St. Maximilian, Milan Cathedral
Statue of Napoleon I in Villa Cataldi, Marengo

literature

Cacciatori (Cacciatore), Benedetto . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 336 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Nello Tarchiani: Cacciatori, Benedetto. In: Enciclopedia Italiana , Volume 8, Rome 1930

Web links

Commons : Benedetto Cacciatori - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Astrid Fendt: Archeology and Restoration: The Sculpture Supplements in the Berlin Antique Collection of the 19th Century . tape 1 . de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-024743-5 , p. 487 . ( Digitized in the Google book search)

personal data
SURNAME	Cacciatori, Benedetto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 29, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH	Carrara
DATE OF DEATH	September 25, 1871
Place of death	Carrara

[1] Astrid Fendt: Archeology and Restoration: The Sculpture Supplements in the Berlin Antique Collection of the 19th Century . tape 1 . de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-024743-5 , p. 487 . ( Digitized in the Google book search)