Pietro Tenerani (11 November 1789 – 16 December 1869) was an Italian sculptor of the Neoclassic style.

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He was born in Torano, near

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. He initially trained with his maternal uncle, the sculptor Pietro Marchetti, and in 1813, obtained a stipend to study in Rome. There he studied mainly in the studio of

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. In 1816, he sculpted an ''Abandoned Psyche'' sold to Marchesa Lenzoni of Florence. He was prolific and worked in a chaste

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into the mid-nineteenth century, specialising in pious subjects. His most prominent commission was for the tomb of Pope Pius VIII in Rome. He completed a colossal statue of '' St Alfonso de Liguori'' for the Vatican. He sculpted a ''St John the Evangelist'' for the church of San Francesco di Paola in

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, and of ''San Benedetto'' in the Basilica Ostiense. He made numerous busts of officials in the state and church, including Popes Pius VIII, Gregory XVI, and Pius IX. He depicted the Count Esterhazy and his daughter Karoly. He completed a bas-relief for the ''Monument to Alberto Mattioli'', designed by Luigi Poletti, for the church of Sant'Agostino in Rimini. He sculpted a bust of

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, the ill-fated minister of Pius IX, and of Carlota of Mexico, former empress, and widow of Maximilian. He sculpted a public statue of Simon Bolivar for Plaza de Bolivar in Bogota, and a bronze statue of Ferdinand II of Naples for the city of Messina in Sicily. In Hungary, he sculpted a monument to Foth for the Karoly chapel. Estatua de la plaza de Bolívar en Bogotá

Estatua de la plaza de Bolívar en Bogotá

Among his pupils were , Fedele Caggiano and Ambrogio Zuffi. His son became an architect. He was buried in the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Rome, Santa Maria degli Angeli alle Terme Diocleziane.artistica: pubblicazione mensile, illustrata''
Volume 1, Number 7, By Gaetanno Giucci, Editor, Raffaello Ojetti, 1872, page 49-54

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tenerani, Pietro 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Neoclassical sculptors 1789 births 1869 deaths People from the Province of Massa-Carrara Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Catholic sculptors 19th-century Italian male artists

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