Antonio Tortone (

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, active 1862 -1884) was an Italian sculptor.

Biography

He was a pupil of Vincenzo Vela and resident in

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where he completed his studies at the Accademia Albertina. He exhibited frequently at the Promotrice of Turin, and in 1862, was nominated into the Album della Società of Artists in Turin. That year, along with his colleagues Cassano, Giani, Barone, and Tesio, he exhibited at the Promotrice. His submission was a stucco statue depicting Conte

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di Cavour. In 1867, he exhibited a marble ''La Giovinezza''. In 1880, he exhibits a stucco representing ''Young Napoleon I''. The next year at the Mostra Nazionale of Milan, he sent a bust of King Umberto, and in 1884 to Turin, he sent a bust of the former King Vittorio Emanuele II as well as an ''Eagle'' statue. Tortone made many sculptural portraits for illustrious person, including a stucco bust depicting senator

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exhibited at Turin.

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commissioned Tortona to design a ''Monument to

Vittorio Emanuele II Victor Emmanuel II ( it, Vittorio Emanuele II; full name: ''Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di House of Savoy, Savoia''; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was Kingdom of Sardinia, King of Sardinia from 1849 until 17 Marc ...

'', who hunted frequently at a nearby park. Known as the “king-hunter”, the sculpture has a dead deer being overgrown by plants. The Galleria d’Arte Moderna of

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has a small bronze model of the monument.Monument in Aosta to Vittorio Emanuele II

References

1888 deaths Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Accademia Albertina alumni Year of birth missing {{Italy-sculptor-stub