Innocenzo Fraccaroli
Innocenzo Fraccaroli (born December 28, 1805 in Castelrotto, now the city of Verona , † April 29, 1882 in Milan ) was an Italian sculptor.
Life
Fraccaroli studied at the Venice and Milan Academies, then trained for five years in Rome, following Bertel Thorvaldsen and Pietro Tenerani , and later lived in Milan again until he was appointed professor at the Florence Academy in 1842. He died on April 29, 1882 in Milan, where he had last taken up residence.
His most outstanding works, kept in an academic style, are: The Child Murder of Bethlehem, colossal marble group (1847, Belvedere in Vienna); the monument to Charles Emmanuel II , in the royal chapel in Turin; the statue of Count Verri, in the Brera in Milan; Eve before the Fall; the wounded Achilles ; Daedalus and Icarus ; the colossal marble bust of the Savior; Colossal bust of a Venezia; Kyparissus , lamenting the death of his stag.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Fraccaroli, Innocenz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 311 f. ( Digitized version ).
- General Artist Lexicon Volume XLIII, 2004, page 202.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fraccaroli, Innocenzo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verona |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1882 |
| Place of death | Milan |