Ignazio Villa (19th century) was an Italian sculptor of mainly mythologic and sacred scenes, as well as portraits. He was a Lombard and resident in Milan. He painted near life size historical or mythologic tableaux. For example, he painted a 3/4 size group representing ''Diomede che precipita Pantasilea nello Scamandro''. Among other works are the ''Toilette of Venus'', and the statue semicolossale depicting: ''Archimedes Burning the Ships of Marcellus with Concave Mirrors'' exhibited in 1872 at Milan, along with ''La sera che indica ai popoli il riposo, il silenzio e la calma''. In 1884 at Turin, he exhibited an equestrian group, depicting: ''Una lotta''; and a marble statue: ''The discovery of Archimedes''. Other works of Villa are: ''L'Aurora che sveglia i popoli dal sonno''; ''Hagar heals Samuel'', and other statues of biblical and mythologic themes. he was made a knight of the

Order of the Crown of Italy The Order of the Crown of Italy ( it, Ordine della Corona d'Italia, italic=no or OCI) was founded as a national order in 1868 by King Vittorio Emanuele II, to commemorate the unification of Italy in 1861. It was awarded in five degrees for civi ...

and Academic of Merit by many academies and institutes of art in Italy. A neogothic house apparently designed by him in central Florence was Palazzo Villa on Via Il Prato 22 corner via Santa Lucia.''Firenze capitale (1865-1870): dagli appunti di un ex-cronista''
(1904), by Ugo Pesci, page 13. The neogothic building is now Hotel Albion. His grandson, Mario Sironi, (1885-1961) was an artist.

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