Vincenzo Consani (1818-1888) was a prominent

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from the Canova school. Consani's marble masterpiece statue ''Vittoria'' (1859) is in the

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Early life

Consani was born in

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on April 24, 1818. He was a student of

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as well as a professor at the

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in Florence. Vincenzo Consani also fought in a Tuscan battalion in 1848.

Sculptor

As a young man, he had the favor of the Ducal family of

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, for whom he created numerous works including an image of the

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in the gable of a side door at the church of St Alexander. For the portico of the

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in 1856, he sculpted the statue of Father Antonio Micheli. In the Florentine exhibition of 1861, he exhibited a bust of Sappho which is still in the

and the Wounded Amazon which is at the

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. The Hall of Jupiter at the Pitti Palace hosts one of his masterpieces that the government of

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donated to

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in 1867. In 1870, Consani made the monument to the Marquis Antonio Mazzarosa in

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in Lucca. In 1873 he produced the statue of Antonio Rosmini in

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and the almost-contemporary sarcophagus with the recumbent figure of Countess Matilda in San Giovanni di Lucca. His last works were the statue of the naturalist, Paolo Savi, situated in the cemetery of Pisa, one of

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in the facade of the

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and the bust of the architect

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in the interior of the same cathedral. Consani died in Florence on June 29, 1887.

References

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