Salvatore Albano

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Salvatore Albano (born May 29, 1841 in Oppido Mamertina , † October 13, 1893 in Florence ) was an Italian sculptor .

Life

Salvatore Albano made wood carvings in his youth . In 1860 he moved to Naples, where he first learned sorbille in the workshop of his compatriot and later at the Neapolitan Academy of Fine Arts in sculpture under Tito Angelini . As early as 1864, still as an academy student , he achieved his first successes as a sculptor with the marble group Conte Ugolino , the grave statue Lagrime e Fióri and his marble Moses, shattering the tablets of the law . In 1865 he received the first prize of the academy for his Christ on the Mount of Olives . For his Calipso abbandonata da Ulisse he was granted a three-year scholarship from the province of Reggio di Calabria . The statue is now in the Prefecture Palace ( Palazzo della Prefettura ) in Naples. In 1867 he won the Rome Prize with his statue of Cain .

In 1869 Albano moved to Florence. In 1878 he won the gold medal in the Paris Salon with his sculpture of Vanni Fucci, after Dante's Inferno . This sculpture is on display today at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art .

Towards the end of his life he designed works such as the Rebecca statue for Philadelphia and the Bigatto monument on Milan's Cimitero Monumentale , as well as the funerary monument for General Mac Gregor in St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

Works (selection)

Sculpture "The Fallen Angels" (approx. 1893)
  • Marble group Conte Ugolino, 1864
  • Funerary statue Lagrime e Fióri, 1864
  • Moses Shattering the Tablets of the Law, 1864
  • Christ on the Mount of Olives, 1865
  • Calipso abbandonata da Ulisse,
  • Cain statue, 1869
  • Ariana abbandonata, 1870
  • II Genio di Michelangelo
  • Venus as a beggar, 1872
  • Tomb for Frascara in Sezzè near Alessandtia, 1873
  • Genius of Memory, 1873, made in several versions,
  • Il Sonno el'Amore , after Orientales by Victor Hugo
  • Vanni Fucci , after Dante's Inferno, the artist's most famous work, awarded a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1878
  • Rebecca statue for Philadelphia
  • Bigatto Monument on Milan's Cimitero Monumentale
  • Grave monument to General Mac Gregory in St Paul's Cathedral in London

literature

Web links

Commons : The Fallen Angels by Salvatore Albano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ALBANO, Salvatore in "Dizionario Biografico". Retrieved October 7, 2019 (it-IT).
personal data
SURNAME Albano, Salvatore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Oppido Mamertina
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1893
Place of death Florence