Vincenzo Consani (1818-1888) was an

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sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

from the Canova school. Consani's marble masterpiece statue ''Vittoria'' (1859) is in the

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Early life

Consani was born in

Lucca, Italy Città di Lucca ( ; ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its Province of Lucca, province has a population of 383,9 ...

on April 24, 1818. He was a student of

Luigi Pampaloni Luigi Pampaloni (Florence, 1791–1847) was an Italian sculptor, active in a Neoclassical style. He studied under Lorenzo Bartolini in Florence. In 1826, he designed, together with Giovanozzi, the ''Fountain of the Naiads'' in Empoli. In 1834 ...

as well as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Vincenzo Consani also fought in a Tuscan battalion in 1848.

Sculptor

As a young man, he had the favor of the Ducal family of

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, for whom he created numerous works including an image of the

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in the gable of a side door at the church of St Alexander. For the portico of the

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in 1856, he sculpted the statue of Father Antonio Micheli. In the Florentine exhibition of 1861, he exhibited a bust of

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which is still in the

and the Wounded Amazon which is at the

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. The Hall of Jupiter at the Pitti Palace hosts one of his masterpieces that the government of

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donated to

Vittorio Emanuele II Victor Emmanuel II (; full name: ''Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di House of Savoy, Savoia''; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was King of Sardinia (also informally known as Piedmont–Sardinia) from 23 March 1849 u ...

in 1867. In 1870, Consani made the monument to the Marquis Antonio Mazzarosa in Santa Maria Forisportam in Lucca. In 1873 he produced the statue of Antonio Rosmini in

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and the almost-contemporary

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with the recumbent figure of Countess Matilda in San Giovanni di Lucca. His last works were the statue of the naturalist,

Paolo Savi Paolo Savi (11 July 1798 – 5 April 1871) was an Italian geologist and ornithologist. Biography Savi was born in Pisa, the son of Gaetano Savi, professor of botany at the University of Pisa. The younger Savi became assistant lecturer in zoo ...

, situated in the cemetery of

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, one of

Eugene IV Pope Eugene IV (; ; 1383 – 23 February 1447), born Gabriele Condulmer, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 March 1431 to his death, in February 1447. Condulmer was a Venetian, and a nephew of Pope Gregory XII ...

in the facade of the

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and the bust of the architect Emilio De Fabris in the interior of the same cathedral. Consani died in Florence on June 29, 1887.

References

3. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-consani/ 1818 births 1888 deaths 19th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 19th-century Italian male artists People from the Duchy of Lucca {{Italy-sculptor-stub