Giulio Monteverde

Idealità e materialismo (1911) (detail)

Giulio Monteverde (8 October 1837 – 3 October 1917) was an Italian naturalist sculptor and teacher.

Biography

Monteverde was born in Bistagno, Italy and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He later became a professor there.^[1] Among his students were Lola Mora and Victor de Pol, who both developed significant public work in Buenos Aires.

Monteverde Angel, detail

He was made an Officer in the Legion d'Honneur in 1878 and an Italian Senator in 1889. He died in Rome in 1917.^[1]

Principal works

Monument to Victor Emmanuel II – Rovigo

• Bambini che giocano con il gatto (Children playing with a cat), (1867)
• Monument to Raffaele Pratolongo, (1868) – Genoa, Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
• Colombo giovinetto (The boy Columbus) (1870)
• Genio di Franklin (Franklin’s genius) (1871)
• Jenner colto nell'atto di inoculare il vaccino del vaiolo al proprio figlio (Jenner vaccinating his own son against smallpox) (1873) – Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
• Monument to Giuseppe Mazzini (1879) – Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Cristo morto (Christ dead') (1880) – Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, Argentina
• Monument to Francesco Oneto (1882) – Genoa, Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
• Angelo della Resurrezione (1882) – Genoa, Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
• Tomba Celle (Cell tomb) (1893) – Genoa, Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
• Idealità e materialismo (Idealism and materialism) (1911) – Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
• Il pensiero (The thought) – Rome, Vittoriano
• Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II – Rovigo

Sources

1. McKay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, London, 1995

• The corresponding article in the Italian Wikipedia as it stood on 6 August 2006
• Giulio Monteverde (Italian)

External links

• The gipsoteca (gallery of plaster casts) of Giulio Monteverde in Bistagno (Italian)
• "Giulio Monteverdi" (in Italian). La Scultura Italiana.
• Statue of Giuseppe Saracco, Acqui Terme (Italian)