Gaetano Trentanove

Gaetano Trentanove (February 21, 1858 - March 13, 1937) was an Italian and American sculptor.

Trentanove was born in Florence, Italy, a goldsmith's son. He studied at Florence and Rome, became a member of the fine arts academies of Florence (Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze) and Parma, and then opened a studio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as a result of friendships made in Paris ["Oshkosh Daily Northwestern", July 8, 1907.] Trentanove subsequently acquired American citizenship and although he spent a portion of every year in Florence, where the foundry that cast his models in bronze was located, [ [http://www.sculpturecenter.org/oosi/sculpture.asp?SID=199 Foundry inscription on bronze "Tadeusz Kosciuszko", Cleveland] .] he passed most of the remainder of his life in Milwaukee. In 1897 Trentanove was created a knight of the Crown of Italy. After retirement, he returned to Italy where he died.

Trentanove's public monuments are more easily located than his portrait sculptures, figual sculptures and decorative sculpture.

Selected works

* (1889) "Victor Hugo", shown at the Exposition Universelle (1889), Paris.
* 1892 "The Last of the Spartans", Milwaukee Museum. Purchased at the Esposizione di Belle Arti, Parma, by William Cramer and donated in 1893 to the Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee.
* n/d "Giovanni Villani" for a niche of the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo, Florence.
* 1894 "Father Jacques Marquette", Wisconsin representative, Statuary Hall, United States Capitol
* 1900 "Daniel Webster" for the Daniel Webster Memorial, Scott Circle, Washington, D.C.
* 1901 "Albert Pike" for the Albert Pike Memorial, Judiciary Square, Washington, D.C. [ [http://www.kittytours.org/thatman2/search.asp?subject=93 Albert Pikeb Memorial] ]
* 1904 "Tadeusz Kosciuszko", Kosciuszko Park, Milwaukee
* 1904 "Tadeusz Kosciuszko", Cleveland Museum of Art
* "Soldiers' Monument", Oshkosh, Wisconsin
* "Governor Nelson Dewey", Lancaster, Wisconsin
* "President McKinley", Somerville, New Jersey
* n/d "Oshkosh", commemorating the treaty with the Menonimi

Notes

References

* [http://www.polistampa.com/asp/sl.asp?id=3789 Omaggio a Gaetano Trentanove] Exhibition, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence, December 2005
* [http://www.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Library_Lines/liondedication.pdf A Commemorative History of the Oshkosh Public Library Lions]