Bruno Innocenti (4 February 1906 – 3 October 1986) was an Italian artist and educator, known for his sculptures.

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Bruno Innocenti was born on 4 February 1906 in

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, Italy. He was the son of a

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, Natale Innocenti, and his mother was Giulietta Freschi. Between 1920 until 1923, he attended Istituto Statale d'arte di Firenze (Porta Romana Institute of Arts in Florence, or State Institute of Art of Florence of Porta Romana) and studied under

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. He attended his Italian military service in

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, and returned to Florence in 1926 to work as Andreotti's art assistant. After the death of Libero Andreotti in 1933, Innocenti took over the role as Chair of Sculpture at Istituto Statale d'arte di Firenze, where he stayed until 1975. Students of Innocenti included

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, Piero Tredici, Loreno Sguanci, and Raffaello Arcangelo Salimbeni. His work, "Portrait of a young man", from the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence was featured in the

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in the Italian Pavilion. He died on 3 October 1986 in Florence, Italy.

Personal life

He married Elsie Rowe on 31 October 1938. Together they had a daughter, Marta (born 1940) and a son, Stefano.

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Bruno Innocenti 1906 - 1986
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1906 births 1986 deaths 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male sculptors Sculptors from Florence {{Italy-sculptor-stub