Pasquale Rizzoli (9 April 1871,
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...
–30 January 1953) was an Italian
sculptor
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. He was born to a family of wealthy merchants and was married to Adelinda Serra Zanetti in May, 1896. Rizzoli was a student of
Salvino Salvini at the
Accademia di Belle Arti of Bologna. In addition to his most famous bronze sculpture that, made in 1903, which is found in the
Parco della Montagnola in Bologna, many of his works are in the cemetery
Certosa of Bologna.
Style
Rizzoli’s artistic style is characterized by a mix of
realism
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*Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts
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, with an interest in the effects of light, and the emerging
art nouveau. This combination is evident in his sculpture for the Possenti-Vecchi family in which he uses the realist style for the faces but has many ornamental details on the same tomb.
As time progressed he began increasingly to favour the art nouveau style over his realism past. His mature style can be see in the monumental tomb for the Ferrari family (1928).
In the later stages of his life, Rizzoli faced a difficult dichotomy: the desire to make sculptures faced with his disdain of the public taste for art, which he found lacking. Rizzoli did not seek to renovate his style and stopped having exhibits of his works.
Legacy
Despite little production at the end of his career he had an important and fundamental impact on the artistic panorama of Bolognese art at the start of the 20th century. He participated at international exhibitions, like the ones in Bologna 1888 and Milano 1906. His impact continued to the middle of the century due to his ability to analyse, personalise, and synthesise the artistic trends that were present in Europe at the time.
References
External links
*
Certosa of Bologna biography of Rizzol
*Bio with pictures from
Sala Borsa http://www.bibliotecasalaborsa.it/cronologia/bologna/1903/25
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1871 births
1953 deaths
Artists from Bologna
Art Nouveau sculptors
Realist artists
20th-century Italian sculptors
20th-century Italian male artists
Italian male sculptors