
Giuseppe Franchi (1731 – 1806) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor.
After studying Neoclassical art in Rome under
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( ; ; 9 December 17178 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenism (neoclassicism), Hellenist who first articulated the differences between Ancient Greek art, Greek, Helleni ...
, he taught at the
Brera Academy
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's main public mu ...
in
Milan
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from its beginning in 1776 where he worked with the architect
Giuseppe Piermarini
Giuseppe Piermarini (; 18 July 1734 – 18 February 1808) was an Italian architect who trained with Luigi Vanvitelli in Naples and designed the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (1776–78), which remains the work by which he is chiefly remembered. I ...
.
Among his Milan works are decorations for the
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, for the facade of the
Teatro alla Scala
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and for
Karl Joseph von Firmian
Karl Joseph von Firmian (15 August 1716 – 20 July 1782) was an Austrian noble, who served as Plenipotentiary of Lombardy to the Habsburg Monarchy. His proper name was Karl Gotthard von Firmian, and in Italy known as Carlo Giuseppe di Firmian. H ...
's monument in the Church of
San Bartolomeo. In 1782, he sculpted the mermaids and dolphins for Piermarini's fountain at Piazza Fontana. Among his pupils were
Angelo Pizzi.
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See also
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Neoclassical architecture in Milan
Neoclassical architecture in Milan encompasses the main artistic movement from about 1750 to 1850 in this northern Italian city. From the final years of the reign of Maria Theresa of Austria, through the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and the Europ ...
References
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18th-century Italian sculptors
Italian male sculptors
19th-century Italian sculptors
1731 births
1806 deaths
Sculptors from Carrara
19th-century Italian male artists
18th-century Italian male artists