Emilio Zocchi (March 5, 1835 – January 10, 1913) was an Italian sculptor. He is best known for his busts,

bas-reliefs Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb , to raise (). To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...

and statuettes of classical and Renaissance individuals. Michel-Ange sculptant un masque de satyre - Emilio Zocchi

Zocchi was born in

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to parents of limited means. He studied with Girolamo Torrini, then with Aristodemo Costoli and subsequently with

Giovanni Dupré Giovanni Dupré (1 March 1817 – 10 January 1882) was an Italian sculptor, of distant French stock long settled in Tuscany, who developed a reputation second only to that of his contemporary Lorenzo Bartolini. Biography Born in Siena, Dupr� ...

at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts. One of his first works was a ''Michelangelo as a young boy''. His ''Young Bacchus'' won an award at the Vienna Exposition of 1873. He completed the bas-relief of ''Constantine's vision of the Cross'' at the entrance to the church of

Santa Croce, Florence The ( Italian for 'Basilica of the Holy Cross') is a minor basilica and the principal Franciscan church of Florence, Italy. It is situated on the Piazza di Santa Croce, about 800 metres southeast of the Duomo, on what was once marshland beyond ...

. He completed monuments to ''Benjamin Franklin'' and ''Vittorio Emanuele II''.Rivista enciclopedica contemporanea
Editore Francesco Vallardi, Milan, (1913), entry by F, page 26. Emilio, in turn, was the teacher of his son

Arnoldo Zocchi Arnaldo Zocchi (20 September 1862 – 17 July 1940) was an Italian sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th century. He was born in Florence and died in Rome. He studied sculpture in Florence under his father Emilio Zocchi. Works Italy *Fou ...

and his cousin Cesare Zocchi. He died in Florence.

References

*Mackay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977 1835 births 1913 deaths Sculptors from Florence 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-sculptor-stub