Donato Barcaglia

Atleta, 1898-1905 (Fondazione Cariplo)

Donato Barcaglia (Pavia, 1849 – Rome, 1930) was an Italian sculptor.

Biography

Having attended the courses of sculpture taught by Abbondio Sangiorgio at the Brera Academy in Milan, Barcaglia established himself as a portraitist in the 1860s before devoting his energies in the following decade to genre sculpture, for which he achieved distinction at the international exhibitions held in Vienna in 1873 and Philadelphia in 1876. This later gave way to a more rigorous classical style both in public works and in the groups sculpted in the first two decades of the new century for tombs in the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan.

References

• Laura Casone, Donato Barcaglia, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).

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