Giuseppe de Fabris

Giuseppe de Fabris (born August 19, 1790 in Nove , Vicenza Province , † August 22, 1860 in Rome ) was an Italian sculptor, president of the Roman Accademia di San Luca and general director of the Vatican Museums . In addition to portrait busts, he mainly created grave monuments.

Life

Statue of Peter in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome

De Fabris received his first drawing lessons in the workshop of the painter Giacomo Ciesa in Vicenza. In 1808 the family moved to Milan, the then capital of Italy, where he worked in the cathedral workshop and attended the academy. In 1813 he was awarded a prize by the Accademia della Brera. The scholarship associated with the award enabled him to study in Rome. In Rome he completed his artistic training at the Scuola del Nudo in the Palazzo Venezia , at the Accademia Lombardo-Veneta and at Canova. De Fabris worked for Antonio Canova , who had a strong artistic influence. The genius on Canova's tomb in the Frari church is from De Fabris in Venice.

De Fabri's drawings are kept in the library of the Instituto d'Arte in Nove.

Works (selection)

Canova's tomb in the Frari Church, left the Genius de Fabris'

• 1811 Statue of St. Napoleone erected on a pinnacle of the Milan Cathedral .
• 1816–18 Relief of the wedding of Alexander and Roxane on a vase, wedding gift from the Venetian provinces to Emperor Franz II.
• 1817 bust of Gian Giorgio Trissino ,
• 1821 tomb of Ugolino Marinelli-Galilei , in San Giovanni dei Fiorentini , Rome
• 1824 Tomb of Countess Tomati-Robilanti in Sant'Andrea della Valle , Rome
• 1824 Genius at Canova's tomb, Frari Church, Venice
• 1836 funeral monument for Pope Leo XII. , St. Peter's Basilica
• 1838–40 Colossal statue of St. Peter , St. Peter's Square , Rome
• 1845 tomb for Andrea Palladio , 1845, Cimetiero Monumentale, Vicenza
• 1845 funerary monument for Torquato Tasso , Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo , Rome

literature

• Friedrich Noack : Fabris, Giuseppe de . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 169–170 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Livia Alberton Vinco Da Sesso:  DE FABRIS, Giuseppe. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 33:  D'Asaro – De Foresta. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1987.
• Nico Stringa: Lo scultore Giuseppe de Fabris. Milan 1994, ISBN 88-435-5068-3 .

Web links

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