Giovanni Spertini (

Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...

, 1821 -

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, 1895) was an Italian sculptor. Beginning in 1836, he studied sculpture 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 ...

, and then privately under Gianmaria Benzoni, Giovanni Antonio Labus, and

Pietro Magni (sculptor) Pietro Magni (October 21, 1817 - January 20, 1877) was an Italian sculptor. Born in Milan, he studied at that city's Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera before moving to the workshop of Abbondio Sangiorgio. Later in his career he became influenced ...

. He became an honorary associate at the Brera. His first main work as: ''La scrittrice'', also known as the ''Leggitrice del Magni'', which was donated to the Brera. His ''Columbus Messenger'' was awarded a prize at the 1876 Exposition of Philadelphia. He won a national contest to sculpt a bust of Mazzini once found in Campidoglio. His statue of ''Un colpo sicuro'' was sold at the 1878 Paris Exposition. Among his other notable works, are the larger than life busts of

Amilcare Ponchielli Amilcare Ponchielli (, ; 31 August 1834 – 16 January 1886) was an Italian opera composer, best known for his opera ''La Gioconda''. He was married to the soprano Teresina Brambilla. Life and work Born in Paderno Fasolaro (now Paderno Ponchiell ...

and

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(stucco, 1886 Exhibition of Fine Arts in Milan). He won a gold medal with honorable diploma at the Didactic and Industrial Exposition of Monza, and the extraordinary award outside of the contest at the Exposition regionale of Pavia. In this time, he was nominated, by contest, professor of modeling at the scuola superiore d'arte applicata all'industria in Milan. At the Exposition of Turin, in 1880, he exhibited seven bas-reliefs in porcelain depicting: six portraits and ''Conjugal Love'', and in the next year at the Exposition of Milan, he exhibited a beautiful work, entitled: ''Volontario di un anno'', a medal depicting the ''Madonna and Child'', and a bust titled: ''Ingenua'', and other two busts in stucco: the first, a ''Portrait of the Artist'', the other a portrait of a Signora. stessa Milan at the Exposition of 1883, where he exhibits: a posthumous ''Portrait of signor Giacinto Zari'' (marble bust), by commission for the son Giulio, and another posthumous marble ''Portrait del signor Gaspare Campori''; a marble posthumous bust of ''Portrait of signor Litigi Provasoli'', commissioned by Doctor Pietro Labus and his wife; a bust in stucco depicting: ''King Vittorio Emanuele II'' by commission for the City Hall of

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. At the 1883 Exhibition of Fine Arts in Rome, he exhibited a porcelain plate depicting a profile of the King Umberto I. In 1884 at Turin, he exhibited un marble bust depicting Senator

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, a bronze Medallion, and a stucco bust of Farina Mathan. In the 1872 Exhibition of Fine Arts in Milan, he displayed a bas relief depicting a ''Mater Salvatoris'', and a bust in marble of Garibaldi. ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by

Angelo de Gubernatis Count Angelo De Gubernatis (1840–26 February 1913), Italian man of letters, was born in Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen times. Life In 1862 he wa ...

.Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 491-192.

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