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Giulio Monteverde (8 October 1837 – 3 October 1917) was an Italian naturalist sculptor and teacher.
He was made an Officer in the
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The ''gipsoteca'' (gallery of plaster casts) of Giulio Monteverde in Bistagno
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1837 births 1917 deaths People from the Province of Alessandria Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-sculptor-stub
Giulio Monteverde (8 October 1837 – 3 October 1917) was an Italian naturalist sculptor and teacher.
Biography
Monteverde was born inBistagno
Bistagno is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southwest of Alessandria.
Bistagno borders the following municipalities: Castelletto d'Erro, Mela ...
, Italy and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts
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in Rome
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. He later became a professor there.McKay, James, ''The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze'', Antique Collectors Club, London, 1995
Among his students were Yulia Brazol, Lola Mora
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and Victor de Pol
Victor de Pol (1865 - 1925) was an Italian sculptor and medallist most active in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Born in Venice, de Pol was a student of Giulio Monteverde. (Monteverde was also the mentor to Argentine sculptor Lola Mora.) He immigra ...
, who both developed significant public work in Buenos Aires
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.
He was made an Officer in the Legion d'Honneur
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in 1878 and an Italian Senator in 1889. He died in Rome in 1917, five days shy of his 80th birthday.
Principal works
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Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
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* ''Colombo giovinetto'' (''The boy Christopher Columbus, Columbus'') (1870)
* ''Genio di Franklin'' (Benjamin Franklin, Franklin’s genius'') (1871)
* ''Jenner colto nell'atto di inoculare il vaccino del vaiolo al proprio figlio'' ('' Jenner vaccinating his own son against smallpox
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'') (1873) – Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
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* ''Monument to Giuseppe Mazzini
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'' (1879) – Buenos Aires
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, Argentina
* ''Cristo morto'' (''Christ dead') (1880) – Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, Argentina
* ''Monument to Francesco Oneto'' (1882) – Genoa, Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
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* '' Monument to Vincenzo Bellini'' (1882) - Catania, Piazza Stesicoro
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The piazza is frequently host to markets. The circumvalent street is bisected by Via Etna and at the eastern end opens to the modern bo ...
* '' Angelo della Resurrezione'' (1882) – Genoa, Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
* ''Tomba Celle'' (''Cell tomb'') (1893) – Genoa, Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
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* ''Idealità e materialismo'' (''Idealism and materialism'') (1911) – Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
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* ''Il pensiero'' (''The thought'') – Rome, Vittoriano
* ''Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II'' – Rovigo
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Geography
Rovigo stands on the low ground known as Polesine, by rail southwest of Venice and south-southwest ...
Two of his angel statues are among the most copied in the world of funerary art; the angel in Staglieno Cemetery known as the Angelo della Resurrezione (''The Resurrection Angel''), and the angel in Rome's Verano Cemetery known as the ''Angel of the Night''. There are three of the Resurrection Angel in the New York City area, and three of the ''Angel of the Night'' in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Monteverde also created a ''Resurrection Angel'' for his own family tomb in Verano Cemetery in Rome.
Sources
* The corresponding article in the Italian Wikipedia as it stood on 6 August 2006Giulio Monteverde
External links
The ''gipsoteca'' (gallery of plaster casts) of Giulio Monteverde in Bistagno
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1837 births 1917 deaths People from the Province of Alessandria Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-sculptor-stub