Antonio Tortone (

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, active 1862 -1884) was an Italian sculptor.

Biography

He was a pupil of Vincenzo Vela and resident in

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where he completed his studies at the

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. He exhibited frequently at the Promotrice of Turin, and in 1862, was nominated into the Album della Società of Artists in Turin. That year, along with his colleagues Cassano,

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, Barone, and Tesio, he exhibited at the Promotrice. His submission was a stucco statue depicting Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour. In 1867, he exhibited a marble ''La Giovinezza''. In 1880, he exhibits a stucco representing ''Young Napoleon I''. The next year at the Mostra Nazionale of

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, he sent a bust of King Umberto, and in 1884 to Turin, he sent a bust of the former King Vittorio Emanuele II as well as an ''Eagle'' statue. Tortone made many sculptural portraits for illustrious person, including a stucco bust depicting senator Ercole Ricotti exhibited at Turin.

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commissioned Tortone to design a ''Monument to

Vittorio Emanuele II Victor Emmanuel II (; full name: ''Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di House of Savoy, Savoia''; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was King of Sardinia (also informally known as Piedmont–Sardinia) from 23 March 1849 u ...

'', who hunted frequently at a nearby park. Known as the “king-hunter”, the sculpture has a dead deer being overgrown by plants. The Galleria d’Arte Moderna of

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has a small bronze model of the monument.Monument in Aosta to Vittorio Emanuele II

References

1888 deaths Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Accademia Albertina alumni Year of birth missing {{Italy-sculptor-stub