Pietro Tenerani

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Portrait of Pietro Tenerani by Francesco Gaj (1869)

Pietro Tenerani (born November 11, 1789 in Torano near Carrara , † December 14, 1869 in Rome ) was an Italian sculptor .

Life

Flora (1840)

Tenerani was a student of the sculptors Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen in Rome . As a master student of the latter, Tenerani was involved in the creation of the tomb of Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg in Munich's Michaelskirche , where he especially created the geniuses of life and death. During the work on this tomb there was a falling out with Thorvaldsen, which in 1829 led to a court settlement .

In 1823 Tenerani modeled a "Christ on the Cross" for the city of Pisa , which they then had made in silver and given to the Church of San Stefano.

Even with his first independent works, for example "Amor" and "Psyche", Tenerani was able to step out of the shadow of his teachers and also get his first orders. The Accademia di San Luca gave Tenerani a teaching position and appointed him professor . As such he had many students, including a. Aurelio Tiratelli . 1844 Pietro Tenerani has been an external member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts was added and in 1847 in New York as an honorary member ( Honorary NA ) of the National Academy of Design selected.

Tenerani held his position as a lecturer at the art academy until the end of his life. In 1860 he was appointed general director of all Roman museums and galleries ; this title was not so much an office as an honor.

Tenerife's artistic oeuvre covers a wide spectrum , from gems as diagrams to individual statues and monumental groups of figures for fountains. His figures were already praised by contemporaries as "... excellently worked and an ornament for the academy" (G. Romani).

Medal portrait

  • 1853, cast bronze on one side, 87 mm: P. TENERANI <> SCULTORE - portrait of the neck to the right. Medalist: Carl Friedrich Voigt (1800–1874).
  • the statue of Tenerani, which was destroyed in the Second World War (in the fourth, currently empty aedicula of the Glyptothek east facade) has not yet been replaced.

Works

Cupid pulling a thorn out of Venus (1825)
  • Psyche with Pandora's box
  • Cupid pulling a thorn out of Venus
  • Descent from the Cross (1842, marble relief, Torlonia Chapel, Lateran )
  • Christian lovers, martyred
  • Tomb of the Duchess of Lante ( Santa Maria sopra Minerva )
  • Teresa Pelzer grave (1852, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo )

Individual evidence

  1. nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "T" / Tenerani, Pietro Honorary 1847 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 17, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org

literature

  • Oreste Raggi, Della vita e delle opere di Pietro Tenerani, del suo tempo e della sua scuola nella scultura, libri tre , Succ. Le Monnier, 1880.
  • Harald Tesan: Thorvaldsen and his sculpture school in Rome . Böhlau, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-412-14197-6 .
  • Jane Turner (Ed.), The Dictionary of Art , Vol. 30, p. 459. New York, Grove, 1996. ISBN 1-884446-00-0 .
  • Stefano Grandesso, Pietro Tenerani (1789-1869) , Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2003, ISBN 88-8215-678-8  - ISBN 978-88-8215-678-7 .

Web links

Commons : Pietro Tenerani  - Collection of images, videos and audio files