Giulio Monteverde
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Giulio Monteverde (born October 8, 1837 in Bistagno , Piedmont , † October 3, 1917 in Rome ) was an Italian sculptor .
Life
Giulio Monteverde, son of a farm laborer, spent his early years between Bistagno and Casale Monferrato . He began his artistic career as a wood carver with the production of crucifixes and heads of angels. Examples of this early work have been preserved in the Church of San Francesco in Acqui Terme and in the Church of San Secondo in Asti . He moved to Genoa and initially worked there in a furniture workshop. From 1859 he attended the Accademia ligustica di Belle Arti and moved to Rome in 1863 after winning a prize and thus a scholarship at the Accademia di San Luca .
Giulio Monteverde had married early and as his family grew, the first half of his life was a constant battle against poverty. But his fate was to change in 1867 when he succeeded in selling his work Children Playing with a Cat to the future King Wilhelm II of Württemberg, who was on vacation in Rome . He established his actual reputation with the life-size statue Edward Jenner, exhibited in Rome, later also in Vienna in 1873 and in Paris in 1878, vaccinating his son against cowpox , a work of realistic truth, strong sensation and the greatest delicacy of development. It earned him the gold medal and the Franz Joseph Order . In addition to many busts, he also created funerary monuments, including the erotic angel for the Oneto grave, which led to numerous follow-up orders from all over Italy to South America.
Giulio Monteverde was honored with numerous medals, was a member of several academies, including a foreign member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts from 1900 , and since 1874 professor at the Academy of San Luca in Rome, where he died at the age of eighty. In 1937, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the Gipsoteca Giulio Monteverde was opened in Bistagno . On display are among other things 29 of his works, mainly plaster sculptures and terracotta created by the artist between 1884 and 1917.
Major works
- Bambini che giocano con il gatto ( Children Playing with a Cat ), (1867)
- Grave monument for Raffaele Pratolongo , (1868) - Monumental cemetery Staglieno in Genoa
- Colombo giovinetto ( The young Columbus ) also The first inspiration of Columbus (1870)
- Genio di Franklin ( Benjamin Franklin's Genius ) (1871)
- Jenner colto nell'atto di inoculare il vaccino del vaiolo al proprio figlio ( Edward Jenner inoculated his son against cowpox ) (1,873) - Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
- Statue of the architect Sada in Turin
- Statue of Count Giuseppe Massari (1878, Ferrara),
- Monument to Giuseppe Mazzini (1879) - Buenos Aires , Argentina
- Still of the composer Sigismund Thalberg in Naples, 1879
- Cristo morto ( Dying Christ ) (1880) - Buenos Aires, La Recoleta Cemetery, Argentina
- Angel of Monteverde (1882) - Genoa, Staglieno Cemetery
- Monument to Vincenzo Bellini on Via Etnea in Catania , 1882
- Tomba Celle ( Cell tomb ) (1893) - Genoa, Staglieno cemetery
- Idealità e materialismo ( Idealism and Materialism ) (1911) - Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
- Il pensiero ( The Thought ) - Rome, Vittoriano
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| SURNAME | Monteverde, Giulio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bistagno , Piedmont |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 1917 |
| Place of death | Rome |