Ettore Ferrari (

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, 25 March 1845 –

, 19 August 1929) was an Italian sculptor and Grand Master Mason.

Biography

Born in

to an artistic family (his father was also a painter), Ferrari was one of the members of the artistic rebirth in the secular state born after the Italian Unification. For a long time, he was a professor at the Accademia di San Luca, a deputy in the

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and Grand Master of the Grande Oriente d'Italia. the main Masonic body in Italy. Ettore Ferrari and Pio Piacentini in 1884 provided the rough draft plans for constructing a permanent monument, the Victor Emmanuel II Monument that celebrates Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (the first king of a united Italy) and that also commemorates " Risorgimento", the Italian unification that followed the military defeat and dissolution of the temporal

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empire. In 1887, Ferrari created a statue of

Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he i ...

for the city of Constanţa,

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(the ancient Tomis, where the Latin poet was exiled) and this statue was duplicated in 1925 for Sulmona, Ovid's birthplace. Another important work is the bronze statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, created in 1892, located in Pisa in the square with the same name. Ferrari also sculpted the statue for the controversial Monument to Giordano Bruno in

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, Rome. In the 1881 summer, Ferrari was initiated in to the

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"Rienzi" in

, becoming its Grand Master in 1892. In 1897 he became Grand Secretary of the Grand Orient of Italy under direction of Adriano Lemmi and Ernesto Nathan to whom he remained always a close friend. From 1904 to 1917 he took the role of Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy. Among his students was Ermenegildo Luppi.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrari, Ettore 1845 births 1929 deaths Sculptors from Rome Italian Freemasons 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 19th-century Italian male artists