Alessandro Nelli ( Rome, 28 January 1842 – Russia?, after 1897) was an Italian entrepreneur. Nelli was the founder of the Fonderia Nelli (Nelli Foundry), which was the leading sculpture foundry in Rome from 1880 to 1900. He participated to national, international and universal exhibitions, winning several prizes and medals. He exported more than 100 pieces to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Nelli made artistic bronzes for several Italian and foreign artists, including several American artists.

Works

* Odoardo Tabacchi, ''Monument to Arnaldo da Brescia'', Brescia, Piazzale Arnaldo *

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, ''Monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II'',

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* William Wetmore Story

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, ''Monument to William Prescott'', Boston
* William Wetmore Story, ''Monument John Marshall'', US Supreme Court, Washington D.C.
* Pius Welonsky, ''Gladiator'', National Museum
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, Warsaw
* Franklin Simmons, ''Monument to John Logan'', Logan Circle, Washington, D.C., 1892-1901
* , ''Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi'', Brescia
* ''Reliquary of St Adamo Abate'', Guglionesi

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* Edward Müller, ''The Torch'', Accademia di San Luca, Rome^{/sup>
* Ernesto Biondi

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, ''Monument to Manuel Montt and Antonio Varas

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'', Santiago, Chile, 1900-1904
* Ernesto Biondi

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, ''Saturnalia'', Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
* Giulio Tadolini

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, ''Equestrian monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II'', 1890, Perugia
Archivio della scultura. Vittorio Emanuele II, Giulio Tadolini
* Giulio Tadolini

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, ''Monument to Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield'', 1893, Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba, Argentina
* Richard Henry Park

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, ''Monument to Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks

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'', 1890, Indiana State House

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, Indianapolis, US
* Randolph Rogers, The last arrow, 1879-1880, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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, Monument to Count Canevaro, Zoagli
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, Genoa
* Pietro Costa

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, ''Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II'', 1881-1889, Turin
* Ettore Ferrari

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Born in Rome to an artistic family (his father was also a painter), Ferrari was one of the members of the artistic rebirth in the secular state bo ...
, ''Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II'', c. 1880, Venice

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* Ettore Ferrari

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Biography

Born in Rome to an artistic family (his father was also a painter), Ferrari was one of the members of the artistic rebirth in the secular state bo ...
, ''Monument to the poet Ovidius'', 1887, Constanța

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, Romania
* Giulio Monteverde

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, ''Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II'', 1888, Bologna
* Giulio Monteverde

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, ''Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II'', 1889, Ferrara
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* Giovanni Anderlini Giovanni may refer to:

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, ''Monument to Simón Bolívar'', 1889, Guayaquil
* Eugenio Maccagnani, ''Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi'', 1889, Brescia
* Vincenzo Ragusa

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, ''Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi'', 1892, Palermo

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* Augusto Rivalta, ''Monument to King Victor Emmanuel'', 1893, Livorno

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* Cesare Zocchi Cesare, the Italian version of the given name Caesar, may refer to:
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, ''Monument to Dante Alighieri'', 1896, Trento
* Giovanni Ciniselli, ''Monument to marquiss Bernardo de Sá da Bandeira'', 1884, Lisbon

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* Felipe Moratilla, ''Monument to general José Prudencio Padilla'', Riohacha
* Manuel Oms Canet, ''Monument to queen Isabella of Castilla'', 1883, Madrid
* Eduardo Barrón González

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, ''Viriatus'', 1883, Zamora
* Prosper d’Épinay, ''Paul et Virginie'', Curepipe

References

Additional sources

*Angelo de Gubernatis, Dizionario di artisti italiani viventi, Firenze, 1906, p. 235.
*Thieme-Becker, Allgemeinesküntlerlexikon, p. 25, p. 385
*E. Colle, A. Griseri, R. Valeriani, Bronzi decorativi in Italia: bronzisti e fonditori italiani dal Seicento all'Ottocento, Milano, Electa, 2001, pp. 42, 320-323, 386
*P. Coen, ''Il recupero del Rinascimento. Arte, politica e mercato nei primi anni di Roma capitale (1870-1911)'', Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2020, pp. 177–187

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