Salvatore Valenti
Salvatore Valenti (born June 11, 1835 in Palermo , † June 24, 1903 ibid) was an Italian sculptor in Sicily .
Life
Valenti was trained in the workshop of his father Giuseppe, a wood sculptor who worked for the various churches in Palermo.
Salvatore Valenti specialized early on in the material marble for his polychrome altars and wall cladding. In 1857 he created decorative elements for the Ignatius Altar in the Casa Professa . In addition, he designed richly decorated wooden ceilings for palaces and, in collaboration with Salvatore Coco, designed various pieces of furniture and churches decorated with stucco .
He introduced the terracotta industry in Palermo, founded the “Scuola municipale di plastica” in 1868 and in 1886 headed the “Istituto di belle arti” there.
In 1878 Valenti was entrusted with the design of the Italian pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition . His sculptural works approach the classic models of Renaissance sculpture.
His best-known work is the design of the music pavilion (palchetto della musica) in Piazza Castelnuovo .
There is a memorial plaque for the artist in Via Valenti in Palermo.
His son, the sculptor Giuseppe Valenti , created sculptures for churches in Palermo, funerary monuments and the monument to Queen Victoria of England in Valletta , Malta .
One of his students was Mario Rutelli .
Works in Palermo
- San Giuseppe dei Teatini : stucco decoration of several dwarf domes with garlands and putti
- Sant'Ignazio all'Olivella : decoration of the altar with polychrome marble (1857)
- Palazzo Alù: design of the wooden ceiling
- San Francesco d'Assisi : marble altar in the Cappella dell'Immacolata
- Villa Malfitana Whitaker : interior wooden decoration
- Palazzo Mirto : design of the furniture (with Salvatore Coco)
- Bandstand on the Piazza Castelnuova: sculptural design (1874–1875)
- Teatro Massimo : stucco decoration of the autitorium
literature
- Valenti, Salvatore . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 63 .
Web links
- Entry in the Archivio biografico comunale
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Valenti, Salvatore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palermo |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1903 |
| Place of death | Palermo |