Adamo Tadolini (21 December 1788 – 16 February 1863) was an Italian sculptor. One of a family of sculptors, he studied in Rome with the neo-classical sculptor

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and is linked to him in style.

Life

Adamo was born in

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into a family of sculptors, descending from his grandfather Petronio Tadolini (1727–1813). From 1808 to 1813 he attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in

under the directorship of

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(1762–1838). In 1813 Adamo won a prize for sculpture awarded by the Accademia Curlandese, with a terracotta relief showing Venus and Aeneas carrying weapons. He won a four-year scholarship to Rome. During his scholarship he created a plaster statue of Ajax cursing the Gods. He came to the attention of the famed

and was invited to work in his studio. He worked there until 1822 when Canova helped him set up his own studio at Via Del Babuino 150 in Rome which now exists as the Canova-Tadolini Museum and is a treasury of his, and his family's, huge range of work. His sons Scipione Tadolini (1822–1892) and Tito Tadolini (1828–1910) worked with him and Scipione took ownership of the studio on Adamo's death. The studio later passed to Giulio Tadolini (1849–1918) and finally Enrico Tadolini (1888–1967).

Principal works

*Venus and Cupid (1816) *Bust of

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on her grave in the Certosa of Bologna (1818) *Marble statue of Ganymede and the Eagle at

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(1823) *Marble memorial to Monsignor Alessandro Buttaoni in the Church of S. Croce e Bonaventura dei Lucchesi in Rome (1826) *The "Bacchante Room" in the Galleria Borghese *The Rape of Ganymede in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg *Marble copy of Canova's statue of Pauline Borghese *Statue of St. Marinus in the Basilica of

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(1830) *Marble Statue of

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St. Peter's Square at the Vatican (1838) (probably the most public of his works) *Marble monument to Palmira Pulieri Petracchi and Enrico Pulieri in the church of Santissime Stimmate di San Francesco in Rome (1844) *Statue of King David in Piazza Mignanelli in Rome *Statue of St.

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in the Church of the Gesu, Rome *Statue of St.

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, in the Vatican, Rome (1849) (commissioned by King Carlo Alberto) *Bronze equestrian statue of Simón Bolívar, liberator, in the Plaza Bolívar,

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(1850s). (and the replica in the Plaza Bolívar,

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) *Bust of Cardinal Alessandro Lante Montefeltro della Rovere in

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(1858) *Sculpture dated 1842 at the Sardhana/Sirdhanah church/

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, Sardhana India (22 km from Meerut), memorial/tomb of Joanna Nobilis Sombre/

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, wife of

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. Sculpture established by

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References

* Giulio Tadolino (Ed.)
''Ricordi autobiografici di Adamo Tadolini scultore''
Rome 1900 . *Memorial at Sirdhanah/Sardhana http://www.navrangindia.in/2022/08/brgum-samprus-impressive-memorial-at.html

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tadolini, Adamo 1788 births 1863 deaths 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Sculptors from Rome 19th-century Italian male artists