Giovanni Maria Benzoni

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Giovanni Maria Benzoni (born August 28, 1809 in Songavazzo , Bergamo province , † April 28, 1873 in Rome ) was an Italian neoclassical sculptor .

Life

Benzoni studied at the Academia di Belle Arti in Lovere . From 1828 he was a student of Giuseppe Fabris at the Academy of San Luca in Rome and “[…] showed a free, unbound grace in smaller lyrical and allegorical works.” Benzoni found his motifs predominantly in Greek mythology and in the Bible. In Rome "[...] he ran a large workshop which often only provided manual work."

Veiled Rebecca at the High Museum of Art , Atlanta

His most successful work is the veiled Rebecca (approx. 1866) in marble . Rebecca wears a veil , but the artist managed to make it translucent so that it presents itself to the viewer in full beauty. Wealthy art lovers commissioned Benzoni to make several copies of them. Today the Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad , Andhra Pradesh , India , the High Museum of Art in Atlanta , Georgia, and the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield , Massachusetts can each show one version.

gallery

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Maria Benzoni  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benzoni, Giovanni Maria . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 3rd, revised and updated edition up to the latest time. tape 1 : A-F . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1895, p. 107 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Hans Vollmer : Benzoni, Giovanni Maria . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 363 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Fine art collection. (No longer available online.) Berkshire Museum, archived from the original November 19, 2010 ; Retrieved April 11, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Benzoni, Giovanni Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Songavazzo , Bergamo
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1873
Place of death Rome