Pio Fedi (1815–1892) was an Italian sculptor who worked chiefly in the Romantic style.

Works

Fedi is best known for his sculpture of the ''Rape of Polyxena'', or ''Pyrrhus and Polyxena'' (unveiled 1866), in the

Loggia dei Lanzi The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on a corner of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, adjoining the Uffizi Gallery. It consists of wide arches open to the street. The arches rest on clustered pil ...

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, Italy. Fedi had a studio at 89 Via de Serragli. He also completed two of the statues of illustrious Tuscans, Niccola Pisano and

Andrea Cesalpino Andrea Cesalpino ( Latinized as Andreas Cæsalpinus) (6 June 1524 – 23 February 1603) was a Florentine physician, philosopher and botanist. In his works he Taxonomy (biology), classified plants according to their fruits and seeds, rather th ...

, for the

Loggiato degli Uffizi The Loggiato is the semi-enclosed courtyard ( it, cortile) space between the two long galleries of the Uffizi Gallery located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the historic center of Florence, capital of Tuscany, Italy. Because the facade of ...

which is adjacent to the Loggia dei Lanzi. His other works included a sculptural group of the ''Fury of Atamante, King of Thebes'', ''The Genius of Fishing'', ''Hope Nourishing Love'', ''Hyppolite and Dianora del Bardi'', and ''Castalla persecuted by Apollon''. He designed the Monument to General Manfredo Fanti, molded in bronze by Papi, which stands in the

Piazza San Marco Piazza San Marco (; vec, Piasa San Marco), often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as ''la Piazza'' ("the Square"). All other urban spaces in the city (exc ...

.Bacciotti, page 103 Fedi's ''Memorial to Niccolini'' is found in the church of

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. The statue, depicting an allegory of ''Freedom of Poetry'' may have inspired Bartholdi's depiction of the

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. One of his pupils was

Giovanni Bastianini Giovanni Bastianini (17 September 1830 – 29 June 1868) was an Italian sculptor who began his career as a stonecutter in the quarries at Fiesole, and was sent by Francesco Inghirami to study in Florence, first with Pio Fedi and then with Girolam ...

Gallery

File:Piazza Sa Marco, statua.JPG, ''Monument of General Manfredo Fanti'', Piazza San Marco, Florence File:Florence, Italy, The Rape of Polyxena.jpg, ''Rape of

Polyxena In Greek mythology, Polyxena (; Greek: ) was the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba. She does not appear in Homer, but in several other classical authors, though the details of her story vary considerably. After the ...

'' File:03 2015 Neottolemo rapisce Polissena da Ecuba-Pio Fedi 1855 1865-Piazza della Signoria-Loggia dei Lanzi-Galleria degli Uffizi-Giorgio Vasari-ordine dorico-timpano triangolare arcuato (Firenze) Photo Paolo Villa FOTO9264.JPG, Right side of the ''Rape of Polyxena'' File:Il Genio della Pesca (The Genius of Fishing), 1872, Mougins, © Musée d'Art classique de Mougins .png, ''Il Genio della Pesca (The Genius of Fishing)'', 1872,

Mougins Museum of Classical Art The MACM, the Mougins Museum of Classical Art (Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins) is an art museum located in the village of Mougins, in the Alpes-Maritimes department, France. It is 30 minutes from Nice airport and 15 minutes from the centre o ...

Notes

References

* Emilio Bacciotti, ''Bacciotti's Handbook of Florence and Its Environs, Or, The Stranger Conducted Through Its Principal Monuments, Studios, Churches, Palaces, Galleries, Streets and Shops'', Tipografia Mariani, 1885.

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fedi, Pio 1816 births 1892 deaths 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 19th-century Italian male artists