- Girolamo Masini
Girolamo Masini (
December 29 ,1840 – 1885) was an Italian sculptor.Biography
He was born in
Florence ,Tuscany , where he studied with Florentine sculptorAristodemo Costoli . Masini's most prominently-sited work is the bronze statue ofCola di Rienzi (1877) on the left of the stairs leading to theCampidoglio ,Rome . Contemporary bronze reductions of it were made.Masini, a minor member of the Romantic realists of the generation that reacted to the cool
Neoclassicism of Canova, taught at theAccademia di San Luca , Rome, where among his pupils wereErnesto Biondi andAttilio Piccirilli , later of New York.A marble seated "Ruth" exhibits the realist attention to minor details and the sentimental aura of Masini's style. Another of his works, "Fabiola" is in the Museum of Modern Art in Rome.
Masini exhibited at the
Esposizione Internazionale (1874) in Rome. The same year he finished for the comune of Gropello Cairoli (province of Pavia ) a standing figure of donna Adelaide Bono Cairoli, mother of five patriot sons, memorialized by the comune as five columns round a fountain.In Hamburg, Masini executed the mourning female figure on the Zimmer tomb at Ohlsdorf Main Cemetery (Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf) [http://www.fof-ohlsdorf.de/thema/2004/85s16_schoenheit.htm] .
Masini died in Florence in 1885.
References
*Lombardo, Josef Vincent, "Atilio Piccirilli: Life of an American Sculptor", Pitman Publishing Corporation, New York 1944
*Mackay, James, "The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze", Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England 1995External links
* [http://www.scultura-italiana.com/6_Ottocento.htm La sculptura italiana: ottocento] it icon
* [http://www.url.it/donnestoria/testi/trame/cairoli.htm Adelaide Bono Cairoli]
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