Cesare Sighinolfi
Cesare Sighinolfi (1833 in Modena − 1902) was an Italians, Italian sculptor. Biography His father, who built musical organs, wanted him to follow in the profession, but the boy inclined towards art, and he received early mentorship from the sculptor Luigi Mainoni, professor of the Academy of Modena. At the Modenese Academy, he won all the contests, and garnered a stipend to study in Florence, and where he was helped by the sculptor Giovanni Duprè and Pietro Cantini. His first essay in sculpture, submitted back to Modena, was a stucco of ''Drunkenness'', that is, a life-size, dishevelled Bacchante drinking. Then he sent a group of two figures, shepherds and sheepdog. Sighinolfi won the first prize in a contest sponsored by Bettino Ricasoli, Baron Ricasoli for the design of equestrian statues of Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel. He also won a competition for the Monument to Niccolò Fortiguerra, Piazza di Santo Spirito, Pistoia, Monument to Fortiguerra, now erected in Piazza d ...
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