- Giuseppe Grandi
Giuseppe Grandi (1843,
Valganna – 1894, Valganna) was an Italian sculptor, painter and engraver.Life
Taught by Vela at the
Accademia di Brera , in 1866 he won the Canonica competition with a sculpture called "Ulisse" and began to work on averist sculpture of Tabacchi atTurin . After his Turin period, he returned toMilan , where he joined the LombardScapigliatura school. He was a friend of Cremona and Ranzoni, and with them assumed a renewed anti-academist position and shared their common luministic research. Forgetting neoclassical smoothness and the lucidity of Romantic art, he sought the luministic effects of painting in sculpture.One of his best-known works is the monument to
Cesare Beccaria of 1871, along with the lesser-known "paggio di Lara" of 1873 and his "Maresciallo Ney" of 1874.In 1881 his initial design won a public competition to create a monument to the "
Five Days of Milan " in piazza di Porta Vittoria. For thirteen years he worked intensively at compositions,modelli , bronze casting, and even created a small menagerie of animals as live models for the work. For each of the Five Days he had many different and well-known models pose, but he died in 1894 before he could see his work inaugurated. The city of Milan has re-named a piazza after him.External links
* [http://www.scultura-italiana.com/Approfondimenti/Grandi_Monumento_5_giornate.htm Milan, Monument to the Five Days]
* [http://www.scultura-italiana.com/Galleria/Grandi%20Giuseppe/index.html Works]
* [http://www.riccioddi.it/biografia_artisti/00222 Piacenza, Galleria Ricci Oddi]
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