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Francesco Carradori (1747-1824) was an
Italian
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sculptor in
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...
.
He initially studied in his native
Pistoia
Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...
, under
Innocenzo Spinazzi
Innocenzo Spinazzi (1726–1798) was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo period active in Rome and Florence.
Biography
Born in Rome the son of a silversmith, he became the leading sculptor in Florence, where he died. He was trained by Giovanni Bat ...
. Later, the patronage of the then
Grand Duke Leopold sustained him as a pupil of
Agostino Penna in Rome. He became the professor of sculpture at the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. In 1802, he published a guide (''Istruzione elementare'') for students of sculpture.
Guida di Pistoia per gli amanti delle belle arti con notizie
By Francesco Tolomei, page 159. Among his pupils was Stefano Ricci (sculptor). It is reported that either him or his teacher may have installed the tail of the ''Chimera of Arezzo
The Chimera of Arezzo is regarded as the best example of ancient Etruscan art. The British art historian David Ekserdjian described the sculpture as "one of the most arresting of all animal sculptures and the supreme masterpiece of Etruscan bron ...
'' incorrectly, causing the Chimera's snake-tail to appear to be biting the Chimera's own goat horns.
References
* Carradori, Francesco, Lasinio, Carlo, Istruzione elementare per gli studiosi della scultura, 1802
Internet Archive
1747 births
1824 deaths
18th-century Italian sculptors
Italian male sculptors
19th-century Italian sculptors
People from Pistoia
Academic staff of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze
19th-century Italian male artists
18th-century Italian male artists
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