Pietro Costa

Pietro Costa (born June 29, 1849 in Celle Ligure , † April 18, 1901 in Rome ) was an Italian sculptor.

Life

Monument to King Victor Emmanuel in Turin

Pietro Costa studied at the art academies of Genoa and Florence . He subsequently received a Rome scholarship. In Rome in 1878 he created the statue of King Victor Emanuel II for the Consiglio Provinciale in Rome. In 1879 he won a competition for the monument to King Victor Emanuel in Turin and was commissioned to carry it out with the stipulation that the monument should be delivered within seven years. When he had not yet delivered after 20 years, the unfinished work was confiscated, completed by other sculptors and unveiled in September 1899. Costa had taken up residence in Turin for this assignment. The monument to Giuseppe Mazzini (1882) in Genoa, the tomb Noceti in the monumental cemetery Staglieno , a statue by Francesco Redi for the colonnade of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and St. Jacobus for the facade of the Florence Cathedral were also created during his time in Turin .

At the same time he also delivered to South and Central America; such as a monument to General Juan Galo de Lavalle in Buenos Aires as well as a monument to junta member Mariano Moreno (1877) in Moreno in Argentina and a monument to Bishop Apolinar Serrano for his tomb in the Cathedral of San Cristóbal in Havana , Cuba.

Pietro Costa died shortly after the Turin debacle attacked in Rome and was buried in Celle Ligure.

literature

• Guido Battelli : Costa, Pietro . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 533 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Franco Sborgi:  Costa, Pietro. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 30:  Cosattini – Crispolto. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1984.

Web links

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