Lio Gangeri (Messina, June 1, 1845 – Salerno, February 5, 1913) was an Italian sculptor.
Life
First student of the painter
Michele Panebianco from 1867 he moved to Rome where he studied under
Giulio Monteverde. Later he worked in Italy but above all between Rome and in Messina.
Gangeri was the Professor and President of import Italian art academies like the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara and of the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma is a public tertiary academy of art in Rome, Italy. It was founded in the sixteenth century, but the present institution dates from the time of the unification of Italy and the capture of Rome by the Kingdom ...
. Among his students he remembers
Arturo Dazzi.
He died in
Salerno
Salerno (, ; ; ) is an ancient city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Campania, southwestern Italy, and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after Naples. It is located ...
on February 5, 1913
Gangeri, Letterio
(search result, in Italian). ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani''. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved April 2017
References
1845 births
1913 deaths
19th-century Italian painters
19th-century Italian male artists
Italian male painters
20th-century Italian painters
20th-century Italian male artists
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