Silvio Sbricoli (1864–1911) was an Italian sculptor and painter. He was born in

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. As a young man he worked for many years in the studio of the French sculptor

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. He was active inside and near Rome, producing numerous statues, monuments, and portraits in a Realist style. He completed the monument to

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(circa 1904) in

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. He also completed the statue of

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(1899) for the

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. At the 1884 Exposition of Fine Arts in Turin, he exhibited two portrait busts in bronze stucco; and at the National Artistic Exposition in Venice of 1887, he sent ''Un bricconcello''. The next year at the Exposition of Bologna, he exhibited a painting titled: ''Dichi a' mme!'' ‘‘Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.’’
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 457.

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