Giuseppe Prinzi

Giuseppe Maria Prinzi (born September 11, 1825 in Messina , † July 7, 1895 in Frascati ) was an Italian sculptor from Sicily .

Giuseppe Prinzi : Allegorical statue of Messina (1852)

Life

Prinzi was the son of a trader and initially trained in his hometown at the Scuola di Disegno from Letterio Subba , later he became a student of Michele Panebianco in Messina . In the middle of the 19th century he went to Rome and studied at the Accademia di San Luca under Tommaso Aloisio Juvarra and Pietro Tenerani in order to perfect his studies.

He received his first orders from the city of Messina. He created sculptures in Rome , Umbria and Messina.

Messina: Allegorical female figure Messina (1852)

Campobasso : Statue of Flora (1873)

St. Peter's Basilica ( Vatican ): statue of Saint William of Vercelli (1878)

Pincio (Rome): bust of the astronomer Angelo Secchi (1879)

Chiesa di San Benedetto ( Norcia ): statue of Saint Benedict (1880)

Castello Pennisi di Floristella ( Acireale ): Bas-relief Entombment (1886)

Cathedral of San Giovanni ( Ragusa ): bas-relief

Prinzi, Giuseppe . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 407 .
Heidrun Kurz: Prinzi, Giuseppe . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 97, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023264-6 , p. 44.

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personal data
SURNAME	Prinzi, Giuseppe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Prinzi, Giuseppe Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Messina
DATE OF DEATH	July 7, 1895
Place of death	Frascati