Pietro Lazzarini (5 January 1842 – 1918) was an Italian sculptor.

Biography

He descended from a family of sculptors who ran a marble workshop in

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from 1670 until 1942. The sculptor Giuseppe Lazzarini was his brother. He submitted a bas relief of ''Evander retrieves the body of Pallas'' for a competition, and was awarded a stipend by the government to study at the

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. He returned to work to Carrara. Among his first mature works are the ''Martyrdom of four saints'', found in the main altar of the Lombard church of Carrara. This he followed it with ''Leda'' and ''Bacchus'' donated to the Academy of Carrara. Then he sculpted ''After the Bath'', a nude female statua exhibited at the Accademia Fiorentina, where it was awarded a gold medal. He sculpted a bas-relief medallion of princess della Cisterna. For the

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in front of Thurles Cathedral, erected in 1911

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lazzarini, Pietro 1842 births 1918 deaths 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze alumni 19th-century Italian male artists