Ettore Ximenes (11 April 1855,

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20 December 1926,

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) was an Italian sculptor.

Biography

Son of

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and Giulia Tolentino, a Sicilian noble woman, Ettore Ximenes initially embarked on literary studies but then took up sculpture and attended the courses at the

Academy of Fine Arts. After 1872, he continued training at the Naples Academy under

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and Stanislao Lista. He also established a close relationship with Vincenzo Gemito. Ettore Ximenes signature

He returned to

in 1874 and won a competition for a four-year grant, which enabled him to study and open a studio for sculpture in

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. In 1873 at Vienna, he exhibited ''Work without Genius''. In 1877 at Naples, he exhibited a life-size statue titled ''The Equilibrium'' about a gymnast walking on a sphere. He would make copies of this work in small marble and bronze statuettes. He exhibited a stucco ''Christ and the Adultress'' and ''Il cuore del re (Heart of the King)'', the latter depicting an oft-repeated story of King Vittorio Emanuele during one of his frequent hunts, encountering and offering charity to a peasant child. At the 1878 Paris World Exposition he displayed: ''The Brawl'' and ''il Marmiton''. In

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, he met with

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and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. In 1878, he also completed a life-size stucco of ''il Ciceruacchio'', a statue of the Italian patriot

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and his thirteen-year-old son, depicting them at the moment of their execution in 1849 by Austrian troops. The Cicervacchio statue, with its tinge of revolutionary zeal, did not find commissions for completing the work in marble. He then completed a nude statue of '' Nanà'' based on the novel by

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; the statue was exhibited at the 1879 Salon di Paris. The next year at the Paris Salon, he displayed ''La Pesca meravigliosa'', where a fisherman rescues a bathing maiden. Returning to Italy, he displayed the bust del minister

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. At the Mostra of Rome, he displayed ''The assassination of Julius Caesar''; and at the Exposition of Venice, ''Ragazzi messi in fila''. Ximenes' realism gave way to Symbolist and Neo-Renaissance elements. In addition to sculpture, he also produced illustrations for the works of Edmondo De Amicis published by the Treves publishing house. Ximenes was involved in many of the major official monumental projects in

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from the 1880s on and devoted his energies as from 1911 primarily to commissions for important public works in São Paulo, Kyiv, New York and Buenos Aires.

Works

In Italy

*Bronze

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on Palace of Justice, Rome

In Ukraine

* Monument to Emperor

Alexander II of Russia Alexander II ( rus, Алекса́ндр II Никола́евич, Aleksándr II Nikoláyevich, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ftɐˈroj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ; 29 April 181813 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Fin ...

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(1911) * Monument to

Pyotr Stolypin Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin ( rus, Пётр Арка́дьевич Столы́пин, p=pʲɵtr ɐrˈkadʲjɪvʲɪtɕ stɐˈlɨpʲɪn; – ) was a Russian politician and statesman. He served as the third prime minister and the interior ministe ...

(1913) Image:Alexander 2 Kyiv 02.jpg,

, 1911 Image:Kyiv-stolypin-statue.jpg,

, 1913

In the United States

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in the Battery, Manhattan, New York, 1909100 year
at downtownexpress.com *

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in Dante Park at

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and in Meridian Hill Park, Washington D.C. - castings of the same work, 1921 Image:Ximenes Monument to Verrazzano in NY (1911).jpg, Verrazzano Monument, 1909 Image:Dante (Malcolm X Park).jpg, ''Dante'', Washington, D.C.'s Meridian Hill Park File:Artgate_Fondazione_Cariplo_-_Ximenez_Ettore,_La_Repubblica_Argentina.jpg, '' La repubblica Argentina'', 1900

References

Bibliography

* Elena Lissoni
Ettore Ximenes
online catalogu
Artgate
by

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, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for biography). * Dianne Durante, ''Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide'' (New York University Press, 2007), with a discussion of the Verrazzano. *Fried, Frederick & Edmund V. Gillon Jr., ''New York Civic Sculpture'', Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1976 *Goode, James M., ''The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C.'', Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1974 *Lederer, Joseph & Arley Bondarin, ''All Around Town: A Walking Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in New York'', Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1975 *Mackay, James,''The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze'', Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977

External links

Artnet.com biography: Ettore Ximenes

Flickr.com Ettore Ximenes Group
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