Mario Salvini (Reggio Emilia, 1863 – Florence, 1940) was an Italian

ceramist Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts. Whil ...

and sculptor. He was born in

Reggio Emilia Reggio nell'Emilia ( egl, Rèz; la, Regium Lepidi), usually referred to as Reggio Emilia, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, and known until 1861 as Reggio di Lombardia, is a city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has abou ...

, but he had studied at the Florentine Accademia di Belle Arti, and in that city he had established the ''Salvini'' ceramic factory. Among his works displayed at the 1885 Exposition della Società d'Incoraggiamento of Fine Arts in Florence was a stucco model depicting: ''Night of Gold''. In the next year, at the same Exposition, he exhibited a stucco statue: ''

Jugurtha Jugurtha or Jugurthen (Libyco-Berber ''Yugurten'' or '' Yugarten'', c. 160 – 104 BC) was a king of Numidia. When the Numidian king Micipsa, who had adopted Jugurtha, died in 118 BC, Jugurtha and his two adoptive brothers, Hiempsal and Adh ...

in the Tullian Prison''. At Venice, in 1887, ''Guida''; ''Sciopero''. At Bologna, in 1888, he exhibited a project of a bronze fountain, produced in the foundry of Giuseppe Pellas of Florence. He also exhibited and traveled to the Chicago exposition, and was involved in the production of export ceramics. He exhibited his floral designs at the International Exposition of Turin in 1902. e gradually turned to teaching, and in 1919, he obtained a professorship at the Scuola d'Arte of Veniced, then at the Florentine Istituto d'Arte, where he taught till 1934. His sonse include Celso (Fiesole, 1889 - Florence 1947), a critic of dramatic theater, and Guido (Florence 1893–1965), scenographer.Treccani Encyclopedia entry.

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