Tito Sarrocchi

Tito Sarrocchi (born January 5, 1824 in Siena , † July 30, 1900 there ) was an Italian sculptor .

Monument of Sallustio Bandini by Tito Sarrocchi in Piazza Salimbeni in Siena

The Fonte Gaia on the Piazza del Campo in Siena with the figures of Tito Sarrocchi

Monument to Monumento ai Caduti in Siena

The fountain of the Villa Chigi Saracini in Castelnuovo Beradegna

Life

Sarrocchi was born on January 5, 1824 to Antonio Sarrocchi and Rosa Mancini and grew up in Siena. His birthplace is in today's Via Tito Sarrocchi 3 in the third part of the city Terzo di Città in the Contrada Tartuca (tortoise). At the age of fifteen he moved to Florence to study under Lorenzo Bartolini at the Accademia di belle arti di Firenze . He then learned and worked in the workshop of Giovanni Dupré , who was also from Siena . He himself taught his work of art to Cesare Maccari and Giuseppe Cassioli , the designer of the medal for the Summer Olympics . In 1855 he returned to Siena from Florence. One of his most famous works is the central fountain in the Piazza del Campo in Siena, called Fonte Gaia . From 1858 to 1868, Sarrocchi replaced the heavily damaged panels by Jacopo della Quercia . The fountain was moved 9.60 meters to the west and 1.60 meters to the south so that it now appears in the center of the piazza in front of the Palazzo Casino dei Nobili . The old figures of Jacopo della Quercia are now in the room called Fienile in the Museum of Santa Maria della Scala , where, in addition to the original figures , the plaster casts for the design of the copies of Sarrocchi are exhibited. Also in Santa Maria della Scala, in the Sala di San Giuseppe (Gipsoteca), there have been around two hundred plaster sculptures by the artist since 1999 , which were made after the sculptor's return from Florence to Siena in 1855. Sarrocchi made them available to the city of Siena in 1894 on the advice of his friend Giuseppe Partini.

On May 22, 1861, he married Ernesta Gani, who died on September 8 of the following year in a miscarriage. His second marriage took place on September 29, 1867 with Emma Pallini von Grosseto , with whom he fathered three children (Gino, * 1870; Adele, (1872–1937, later married the son of Giuseppe Partini ); Giuditta, * September 18, 1874 ). From 1873 he worked for the Italian government in the Giunta Superiore di Belle Arti in the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione . He died on July 30, 1900 around 3:45 p.m. in his house in Piazza Pianigiani (today Piazza Matteotti). In his honor, Via Tito Sarrocchi in Siena was named after him. As early as 1901, a bust depicting him by the sculptor Arnoldo Prunai was exhibited in the Sala del Risorgimento in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. It has been dedicated by Vittorio Bandini from the Istituto Pendola:

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Works (selection)

Cagliari , Cimitero di Bonaria: tombs
Castelnuovo Berardenga , Villa Chigi Saracini:
- Monument to Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Fontana di Villa Chigi Saracini
Florence, Florence Cathedral : Facade work Madonna col Bambino , created in 1887
Florence, Santa Croce : Invenzione della croce facade sculpture , created in 1865
Grosseto , viale Manetti: Monumento a Alessandro Manetti , bust of Alessandro Manetti , created in 1873
Grosseto, Bastione Garibaldi (Medici city wall): Monumento a Giuseppe Garibaldi , bust of Giuseppe Garibaldi , created in 1884
Grosseto, Park Renato Pollini (Porta Corsica): Sallustio Bandini, Pio Fantoni, Leonardo Ximenes , fountain with marble reliefs, created in 1878
Grosseto, Cimitero di Misericordia: private chapels
Massa Marittima , Cattedrale di San Cerbone (cathedral): Monumento funerario del vescovo Giuseppe Traversi , tomb of Bishop Giuseppe Traversi, who died in 1872
Siena, Basilica di San Domenico : Monumento a Giuseppe Pianigiani , Altar of San Domenico, created from 1855 to 1858 with Enea Becheroni
Siena, Basilica di San Francesco : Busto di Monsig. Giovanni Pierallini , created in 1891
Siena, Fonte Gaia fountain in the Piazza del Campo : faithful replica of the work of Jacopo della Quercia
Siena, Camposanto della Misericordia (cemetery):
- L'Angelo della Resurrezione , is located in the Cappella Ciseri-De Metz
- Clementina Cresti Partini , grave bust
- Ezechiele resuscita i morti , created in 1879, is located in the Cappella Placidi
- Il genio della morte , created in 1860, is located in the Cappella Venturi-Gallerani
- La Fede, la Speranza e la Carità , created in 1868, is located in the Cappella Tadini-Boninsegni
- Le virtù teologali
- Riconoscenza , is located in the Cappella Bandini-Piccolomini
- Tobia , also called Tobia seppellisce i morte , was created in 1873 and is located in the Cappella D'Elci-Pannocchieschi
Siena, Siena Cathedral : Bust of Pietro Bambagini Galletti , created in 1869
Siena, Palazzo Pubblico , Sala del Risorgimento: sculptures and busts
Siena, Piazza Indipendenza: Monumento Civile ai Caduti (is now in Via Arturo Pannilunghi in the district of San Prospero)
Siena, Piazza Salimbeni : Monument to Sallustio Bandini , created in 1880
Siena, Palazzo Sansedoni: Putto dormiente (marble work)
Siena, Santa Maria della Scala , Sala San Giuseppe: collection of around 200 sculptures
Siena, University of Siena , Rectorate, Sala di consultazione (room 3): busts

literature

Sarrocchi, Tito . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 470 .
Piero Torriti: Tutta Siena. Contrada per Contrada. Edizioni Bonechi, Florence 2004, ISBN 88-7204-456-1 .