Giovanni Dupré
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Giovanni Dupré (1 March 1817 – 10 January 1882) was an Italian sculptor, of distant French stock long settled in Tuscany, who developed a reputation second only to that of his contemporary Lorenzo Bartolini.[1]
Biography
Born in Siena,[2] Dupré began in his father's carving workshop and that of Paolo Sani, where he was occupied with producing fakes of Renaissance sculptures.[3][1]
In an open contest run by the
On a trip to Naples he passed through Rome and saw
In 1863 Dupré created his finest work, the Pietà (1860–65), for the family tomb of the marchese Bichi-Ruspoli in the cemetery of the Misericordia, Siena.
His last work, the St. Francis inside the
At the height of his reputation, he served on vetting juries for several international exhibitions.
His memoirs, Pensieri sull'arte e ricordi autobiografici (Florence, 1879, 2nd ed. Milan 1935) were translated into English by Edith Marion Story Peruzzi (Edinburgh, 1886), daughter of the American expatriate sculptor William Wetmore Story. Dupré's daughter Amalia achieved some reputation as a sculptor.
One of his students was Augusto Rivalta.[8]
Works and collections
Many works of Giovanni Dupré can be found gathered in two particular places in Tuscany. The recently closed Dupre Museum in Fiesole, a suburb of Florence was curated until recently by Dupre's relative Amalia Dupre. [9]
The other significant treasury of Dupré works, a gipsoteca featuring plaster molds for many of his most famous marble sculptures including the Abel and two sculptures for the Loggia of the Uffizi, is held in the museum pertaining to Siena's Contrada dell'Onda in via Fontanella 1, and displayed since 1961 beneath the Contrada's Chapel.[10][11]
Plaster molds held here include two works depicting Bacchus as a child: Bacco Festante and Bacco Dolente, a remarkably sensitive depiction of a female child with angel's wings praying called Angel of Prayer, Cain, Abel, various busts, and two group pieces each depicting one adult with two children. Two other funerary monuments depicting sleeping baby girls, of extraordinary sensitivity, comparable in delicacy with his Berta Ferrari monument in Basilica San Lorenzo in Florence, can be found in the Municipal Museum and the Museum of the Works of the Duomo in central Siena.
Notes
- ^ a b c "Giovanni Dupré | Italian sculptor | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ^ The street where he was born, now via Giovanni Dupré in his honour. is just steps away from Piazza del Campo.
- ^ Rosanna Pavoni, Reviving the Renaissance: The Use and Abuse of the Past in Nineteenth Century Italian Art and Decoration (Cambridge University Press) 1997:40. The fakes did not surface in the press until after his death: C. Boito, "Il cofano falsificato di Giovanni Duprè" Arte Italiana Decorativa e Industriale 9.3, March 1900:37f (noted by Pavoni).
- ^ T.C.I. Firenze e dintorni 1964:352.
- ^ T.C.I., Firenze e dintorni 1964:281.
- ^ Livia, Lupi (2023-01-10). "Sculptor Giovanni Dupré Died on 10 January 1882 in Florence". www.italianartsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ^ Touring Club Italiano, Firenze e dintorni 1964:266.
- ^ Berresford, Sandra, ‘’Italian Memorial Sculpture 1820–1940 : A Legacy of Love’’, Frances Lincoln Limited, London, 2004 p. 64
- ^ "Dell a Siena (SI)".
- ^ "Il Museo". Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2011-09-15.
- ^ "~~ Contrada Capitana dell'Onda ~~". Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2011-09-15.
References
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, vol 4 (1888–1890).
External links
- Works by Giovanni Duprè at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Giovanni Dupré at Internet Archive
- Catholic Encyclopedia: "Giovanni Dupré"
- "Giovanni Duprè" Illustrations.
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