Lorenzo Bartolini

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Lorenzo Bartolini
Ingres
(detail, 1805)
Born(1777-01-07)7 January 1777
Died20 January 1850(1850-01-20) (aged 73)
NationalityItalian
Known forSculpture

Lorenzo Bartolini (

Florentine Renaissance rather than the overpowering influence of Antonio Canova
that circumscribed his Florentine contemporaries.

Biography

Monument to Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (the Magnanimity of Elisa)

Bartolini was born in

Savignano di Prato, near Prato, Tuscany
.

After studying at the

Méhul and Cherubini
.

His great patron, however, was

Elisa Baciocchi, to the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo in 1807, to teach sculpture, in spite of local opposition. Here he remained as the quasi-official portrait sculptor to the Bonapartes till after the fall of Napoleon. In 1833, Bartolini was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Honorary member. He then took up residence in Florence, where he lived until his death.[1]

He is buried in the Church of Santa Croce in north-east Florence.

Louvre Museum
Lying Venus, 1820–1830,
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Works

In Florence, his Bonapartist associations and his departures as an artist from the strict

Leone Battista Alberti
, the result could be chilly.

A major commission came in 1830 from the sons of the Russian emigree prince

Nicola Demidoff, who had retired to Florence. The sons commissioned the Monument to Nicola Demidoff to honor their father, which was placed in Piazza Demidoff, Florence. The commission's multiple figures took shape during Bartolini's last decades; it was completed by Bartolini's assistant Pasquale Romanelli
.

His works are varied and include an immense number of portrait busts. The best are, perhaps, the group of Charity (1824), the Hercules and Lichas and Faith in God, commissioned by the widow of Giuseppe Poldi Pezzoli (1768-1833), a wealthy landowner. His portrait statue of Machiavelli took its place as his only commission among the long series of historical Florentine males provided for the empty exterior niches of the Uffizi. He sculpted the Monument to Maria Luisa di Borbone depicting the former Duchess and located in the piazza in front of the Ducal Palaceof Lucca.

Honours

References

  1. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bartolini, Lorenzo" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ TCI Firenze e Dintorni (1964:30) characterized most Florentine neoclassical sculptors as canoviani di modesto valore ("Canovans of modest worth"); the Florentine Galleria d'Arte Moderna used to begin with a gallery with Canova's bust of Napoleon in the center of a gallery that was surrounded by portrait busts, in which Bartolini's Bust of Carlo Ludovico di Borbone, duca di Lucca could be directly compared with busts by Bartolini's contemporaries.
  3. ^ Index biographique des membres et associés de l'Académie royale de Belgique (1769-2005)

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