Achille Salata was a 19th-century

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sculptor. He was born in

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and lived in

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. In 1880, he exhibited at the fourth National Exposition of Fine Arts in Turin: ''La pesca galante'' (bronze), ''Young Shakespeare'' (marble), and ''Portrait of the Mother'' (marble). The latter was also exhibited the next year at the Exposition of Milan. In the 1883 Milan exposition, he exhibited three bronzes: ''The indiscretion'', ''Lo spavaldo'', and ''The sweetness''; and two terra cotta ''La Massaia'' and ''La questua''. He also exhibited in the 1883 Rome Exposition of Fine Arts, the statues ''La Merveilleuse'' and ''Lo spavento''. ''Lo spavaldo'' and ''L' indiscrezione'', bronze statuettes were exhibited in Milan, in 1884. In 1886 in

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, he exhibited a bronze statuette titled ''Acqua di Seltz''; and in the next year to the National Artistic Exposition of Venice, he sent a bronze statuette titled ''L'orgoglio'' and ''Vezzosetta''. In 1877, he exhibited a ''Genio di Napoleone'' at the Brera exposition. He is represented at the Modern Art Gallery of Milan by an 1884 bronze ''Guardaportone'' (Gatekeeper) He completed a funereal ''Monument to Wilhelmo Braghirolli, Abbot in Mirandola'' (1884).Biografie mirandolesi
Volume 1, by Felice Ceretti, page 96.

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