Ettore Ximenes

Ximenes with a statue of Christopher Columbus

Dante statue by Ettore Ximenes in Washington, DC

Ettore Ximenes (born April 11, 1855 in Palermo , † December 20, 1926 in Rome ) was an Italian sculptor of religious and mythological motifs.

Life

Ximenes was born in 1855 as the son of the sculptor António Ximenes . He studied from 1868 to 1871 at the Accademia di Belle Arti in his hometown among others with Vincenzo Ragusa and from 1872 to 1874 at the Art Academy in Naples with Domenico Morelli and Stanislao Lista . However, it was here that Vincenzo Gemito had the greatest influence on Ximenes .

In 1874, Ximenes went to Florence, where he lived on a scholarship. Here he dealt intensively with the different facets of Renaissance sculpture, which gave rise to his eclectic tendencies. In 1880 he went to Paris, where he dealt intensively with the work of Auguste Rodin and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux .

After his return to Italy , an extraordinary, intense period of artistic creation began. From 1884 to 1895, Ximenes was director of the Istituto Statale d'Arte in Urbino .

reception

Ximenes' style is strictly realistic throughout his career and partly shaped by the Renaissance revival of the late 19th century in Italy. Around 1880 he mainly worked on monumental sculptures and during the decades before the First World War he repeatedly received state commissions for official monuments. He created the Ciceruacchio monument in Rome (1907), the Garibaldi monument in Pesaro (1887) and in Milan (1895), as well as the mausoleum of General Belgrano in Buenos Aires (1898), the Bottego monument and the Verdi monument in Parma (1907) and Dante monuments in New York (1911) and Washington (1921). At the world exhibition in Paris in 1878 , Ximenes' sculpture L'Equilibrio was awarded a gold medal.

In addition to sculpting, Ximenes also painted and drew and created several illustrations, including for Edmondo De Amicis ' Il vino and Policarpo Petrocchis Nei boschi incantati .

Works (selection)

• 1887: Monument to the hero of two worlds Giuseppe Garibaldi in Pesaro
• 1895: Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi in Milan
• 1885–1911: The Law , a bronze group for the monument of King Victor Emmanuel II in Rome
• 1898: Monument to General Manuel Belgrano in Buenos Aires
• 1906: Grave for the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Zanardelli in Brescia
• 1911: Monument to Vittorio Bottego in Parma
• 1911: Monument to the discoverer Giovanni da Verrazzano in New York
• 1911: Monument to Tsar Alexander II in Kiev
• 1913: Monument to the murdered Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin in Kiev
• 1915: Monumento a Independência in São Paulo

literature

• Beltrami, Giovanni Antonio de ' . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 345 .

Web links

Commons : Ettore Ximenes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rinascita 1895 - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea ( Memento of April 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Ettore Ximenes on artnet