Domenico Trentacoste (20 September 1859 – 18 March 1933) was an Italian sculptor.

Biography

Born in

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; at the age of 12 years, Trentacoste began apprenticing with the sculptor Domenico Costantino. As a young man he travelled through Italy, including

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, and spent some years in

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starting in 1878. The commission of a triumphal arch made for the visit of King

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garnered Trentacoste enough money to move to

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in 1880, where he met with the sculptor Giovanni Antonio Lanzirotti. Trentacoste worked in both marble and bronze and was commonly exhibited at the annual Salon of Paris, where he exhibited bust portraits Lanzirotti and the sculptor De Gravillon; the busts of the French deputies Jolibos and Lalou; Coronel Herbillon and his wife. The Signore Faure of Paris, had four family portraits by the artist. Two marble ''Ponsona'', and un group of ''Diana'' were found in the palace of the Count De Rancy in Paris. Trentacoste sculpted the marble funeral monument of ''Il raccoglimento'', dedicated to his sister, Maria Antonietta Trentacoste, and found in the cemetery di Santo Spirito, in Palermo. His work ''Return from the Grape Harvest'' was cast into bronze. Other works include ''Ophelia''; ''Beatrice'' and ''I'edera''. His ''

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'' was bought by the English painter

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, who had introduced him to buyers in London. ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, pages 526-527 . For many years, Trentacoste taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tuscany. Among his pupils were

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, Marino Marini,

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, and

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trentacoste, Domenico 1860 births 1933 deaths Artists from Palermo 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 19th-century Italian male artists