Luigi Fabbrucci

Statue of Luigi Fabbrucci

Luigi Gregorio Francesco Fabbrucci (* 1829 in Florence , † 1893 in London ) was an Italian sculptor .

Life and works

Luigi Fabbrucci joined the academy in Florence at the age of 14. He studied there until 1848 under Aristodemo Costoli . In 1853 he created his first major work, a Resurrection of Christ, which was placed on the Camposanto della Misericordia in Florence. In the following years he designed several reliefs for the facade of Santa Croce . In 1860 he moved to Paris ; there he exhibited his works in the salon, including a statue of a slave in 1863. In Paris, Fabbrucci also received government contracts. Nevertheless, he moved to London in 1870, where, among other things, he created sculptures for the tympanum of the gallery building of the Old Water Color Society. His terracotta group The King of Italy visits the cholera sufferers in Naples ended up in the Galleria Nazionale in Rome . Between 1872 and 1884 Fabbrucci created, among other things, portrait busts as well as The Minstrel in 1880 and Waiting for Mamma in 1882 . A bust of General Delaborde came into the possession of the Dijon Museum . A Cristo risorto was placed on the grave of Enrichetta Michelagnoli Nerli in 1879. It is located on the Cimitero dei Pinti in Florence.

Luigi Fabbrucci was the father of the sculptor Aristide Luigi Fabbrucci .

literature

Fabbrucci, Luigi . 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. 148 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

↑ Alessandra Griffo, Isidoro Castello: Cristo risorto. Luigi Fabbrucci (Firenze 1829 – Londra 1893), Firenze, Cimitero dei Pinti. In: OPD Restauro. 17, 2005, pp. 225–230, here p. 225 ( JSTOR 24392559 )
↑ Louis or Luigi Fabbrucci. Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011, on sculpture.gla.ac.uk
↑ Apparently father and son are sometimes confused with one another. In the Musée d'Orsay there is a group of figures representing the competing geniuses of painting and sculpture. The source Luigi Fabbrucci, Italian , on dafainc.com , like others, has a text in which this group of figures is assigned to the son, but puts it under a heading that refers to the father. The group is also assigned to the father on art.rmngp.fr and dated to 1862, as well as on the museum website itself ( www.musee-orsay.fr ).

personal data
SURNAME	Fabbrucci, Luigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fabbrucci, Luigi Gregorio Francesco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	1829
PLACE OF BIRTH	Florence
DATE OF DEATH	1893
Place of death	London

[1] Alessandra Griffo, Isidoro Castello: Cristo risorto. Luigi Fabbrucci (Firenze 1829 – Londra 1893), Firenze, Cimitero dei Pinti. In: OPD Restauro. 17, 2005, pp. 225–230, here p. 225 ( JSTOR 24392559 )

[2] Louis or Luigi Fabbrucci. Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011, on sculpture.gla.ac.uk

[3] Apparently father and son are sometimes confused with one another. In the Musée d'Orsay there is a group of figures representing the competing geniuses of painting and sculpture. The source Luigi Fabbrucci, Italian , on dafainc.com , like others, has a text in which this group of figures is assigned to the son, but puts it under a heading that refers to the father. The group is also assigned to the father on art.rmngp.fr and dated to 1862, as well as on the museum website itself ( www.musee-orsay.fr ).