Tancredi Pozzi (

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, 1864-

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, 1924) was an Italian sculptor.

Biography

Pozzi studied at the

Accademia Albertina The Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti ("Albertina Academy of Fine Arts") is an institution of higher education in Turin, Italy History In the first half of the seventeenth century, there was a "University of Painters, Sculptors and Architects" ...

, under Giuseppe Dini. He completed many bas reliefs, funereal monuments, and monumental commemorations. He also completed a number of portrait busts. At the 1884 Turin exhibition, he exhibited a life-size stucco statue titled: ''Sarà tempesta?''. At the 1887 National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Venice, he exhibited ''Regata vinta''. Other works include ''Rematore'', ''Popolano'', and ''Figurina muliebre''. In 1888 at Bologna, he exhibited a stucco statue of a horse titled ''Tafani molesti'' and a small bronze equestrian group titled ''Tancredi in Love''. He was knighted by the King. These works underscore his predilection for statues of vigorous and active horses and equestrian groups, also including ''Ettore Fieramosca'', ''Kamir'', ''Arduino d'Ivrea'', ''Clelia Romana'', ''Rez'', ''Populus'', ''Fetontesul Po'', and ''Autari''. Among his funereal monuments are that to his family in the Camposanto of Turin. Among his major monumental works are: his ''Monument to King Umberto I'' (1902) standing in the piazza in front of the

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and his bronze ''Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi'' (1904), leaning on a rock, located in Porto Maurizio (

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) in

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Garibaldi Monument in Imperia
Finally, he sculpted the ''Monument to

Angelo Beccaria Angelo Beccaria (May 1820 in Turin – 1897) was an Italian landscape painter active in the Piedmont. Since the age of 18, he trained in the Accademia Albertina under Giovanni Battista Biscarra. As a young man he had a bout of visual loss, but ...

'', in the Garden of what was the Istituto dei Rachitici. He also completed a monumental fountain in Turin.

References

1864 births 1924 deaths Accademia Albertina alumni 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-sculptor-stub