Giosuè Argenti (February 7, 1819 in

Viggiù Viggiù (; lmo, Vigiǘu, label= Varesino ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan and about northeast of Varese, on the border with Switzerland. Viggiù border ...

, Province of Varese – November 29, 1901) was an Italian sculptor.

Life

He trained at the

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of Milan, where he worked along with

Abbondio Sangiorgio Abbondio Sangiorgio (16 July 1798 – 2 November 1879) was an Italian sculptor of the neoclassical period. Biography Born in Milan, Sangiorgio studied at the city's Accademia di Brera. During his early career he worked for the Fabbrica del Duo ...

, Francesco Somaini, Benedetto Cacciatori, and the painter Luigi Sabatelli. His most influential teacher at the academy was Pompeo Marchesi. After six years of study in Rome, winning stipends to pay for his stay, he returned to the academy in Milan. Argenti was passed the "Sculpture Chair" at the

Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of Brera"), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di ...

from Giovanni Strazza in 1875. Among his works are: group of five figures representing ''La Salute'' for Villa Mylius at Loveno on

Lago di Como Lake Como ( it, Lago di Como , ; lmo, label=Western Lombard, Lagh de Còmm , ''Cómm'' or ''Cùmm'' ), also known as Lario (; after the la, Larius Lacus), is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of , making it the thir ...

; an aedicule with statue representing ''Charity conducting an orphan'' at Cimitero Maggiore of Milan; monument with statue representing ''Beneficence'' accompanying a blind child bringing a crown, also at the cemetery, dedicated to a benefactor of the Institute for the Blind in Milan; ''La Religione'', a large statue in an aedicule for Keller; and finally a statue and medallion of ''La Mestizia'' at the same cemetery. He also sculpted the ''Bishop Novasconi'' statue in the Duomo of Cremona; ''La Martire''; and the ''Song of Innocence (Sonno dell'Innocenza)''; ''A Bather''; ''Eve after her Sin''; ''La Rosa degli Amori''; and ''Perseus freeing Andromeda'' (1884). Several of his works have won prizes at the Esposizione Nazionale of Florence, the Esposizione Internazionale of Paris, the Esposizione Internazionale of Munich (including silver medal for his ''Sonno dell' Innocenza'', which had won gold prize at Paris), and also in Vienna, Philadelphia, and Santiago de Chile. In 1867 he was knighted into the legion d'Onore of France. He was also entered into the Order of the Crown of Italy, and honorary associate of the Academies of Fine Arts of Milan,

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and

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

.''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 20.

References

1819 births 1901 deaths People from Viggiù 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Academic staff of Brera Academy 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-sculptor-stub