Ernesto Bazzaro ( / ernˈɛsto bat͡sːˈaro/) (29 May 1859 – 18 May 1937) was an Italian sculptor.

Biography

Like his elder brother, Leonardo, Ernesto Bazzaro studied at the

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, which he attended from 1875, winning the

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Prize in 1881. As a participant in the lively scene of the ''

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'' movement, he was an attentive observer of the renewal in the plastic arts led by

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. He made a name for himself in genre sculpture as well as monumental and cemetery sculpture, obtaining important commissions including the monument to

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in 1886 and, twenty years later, the monument to

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in Milan. His works received acclaim in exhibitions in

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and abroad, and he won the Principe Umberto Prize in 1888 with his plaster group ''The Widow'', which, after being executed in marble, won awards at the international exhibitions of 1889 in Paris, 1892 in

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and the national exhibition of 1892 in

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, where it was purchased by the Ministry of Education. From 1905 to 1908, he sat on the Milan City Council in the ranks of the ''Unione Partiti Popolari'' which comprised socialists, radicals, and republicans. An exhibition was devoted to Bazzaro and his brother at the Galleria Centrale d’Arte in Milan in 1917, and, three years after his death, a retrospective was held at the Società per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente.

References

* Laura Casone
Ernesto Bazzaro
online catalogu
Artgate
by

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bazzaro, Ernesto 1859 births 1937 deaths 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists 19th-century Italian male artists 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Burials at the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano