Gennaro Calì (–1877) was an Italian sculptor.

Biography

He was born and died in

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. He was born in a family of artists. His brother Andrea was also a sculptor. He studied initially at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, then moved to Rome, where he worked under the Neoclassical sculptor

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, and also encountered

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. Returning to Naples, he helped decorate the entrance stairway to the

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. He also helped complete the gilded stucco decoration of the throne room of the

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. In Naples, he also sculpted the statue of ''San Giovanni Crisostomo'' for the church of San Francesco di Paola, a ''Pietà'' for the main altar for the church of the Camposanto, and ''L’Addolorata'' now in the

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. An article in 1856 Journal of ''Il Poligrafo'', describes him as the prince of Neapolitan sculptors In 1822, along with

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, he won an award for sculpture from the Institute of Fine Arts of Naples.Giornale del Regno delle Due Sicilie
Volume 2, page 88. In 1835, he is described as an honorary professor at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts in Naples. Among his pupils was Uriele Vitolo.

References

1790s births 1877 deaths 19th-century Neapolitan people Italian male sculptors Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli alumni Academic staff of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli {{Italy-sculptor-stub