Giosuè Argenti (February 7, 1819 in Viggiù,

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– November 29, 1901) was an Italian sculptor.

Life

He trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Milan, where he worked along with Abbondio Sangiorgio, Francesco Somaini, Benedetto Cacciatori, and the painter Luigi Sabatelli. His most influential teacher at the academy was Pompeo Marchesi. After six years of study in Rome, winning stipends to pay for his stay, he returned to the academy in Milan. Argenti was passed the "Sculpture Chair" at the

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from Giovanni Strazza in 1875. Among his works are: group of five figures representing ''La Salute'' for Villa Mylius at Loveno on Lago di Como; an aedicule with statue representing ''Charity conducting an orphan'' at Cimitero Maggiore of Milan; monument with statue representing ''Beneficence'' accompanying a blind child bringing a crown, also at the cemetery, dedicated to a benefactor of the Institute for the Blind in Milan; ''La Religione'', a large statue in an aedicule for Keller; and finally a statue and medallion of ''La Mestizia'' at the same cemetery. He also sculpted the ''Bishop Novasconi'' statue in the Duomo of Cremona; ''La Martire''; and the ''Song of Innocence (Sonno dell'Innocenza)''; ''A Bather''; ''Eve after her Sin''; ''La Rosa degli Amori''; and ''Perseus freeing Andromeda'' (1884). Several of his works have won prizes at the Esposizione Nazionale of Florence, the Esposizione Internazionale of Paris, the Esposizione Internazionale of Munich (including silver medal for his ''Sonno dell' Innocenza'', which had won gold prize at Paris), and also in Vienna, Philadelphia, and Santiago de Chile. In 1867 he was knighted into the legion d'Onore of France. He was also entered into the

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, and honorary associate of the Academies of Fine Arts of Milan,

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.''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 20.

References

1819 births 1901 deaths People from Viggiù 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Academic staff of Brera Academy 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-sculptor-stub