Auction Closed
December 11, 11:50 AM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
FRANCESCO BARZAGHI
Italian
1839-1892
STREET URCHIN
signed and dated: F. Barzaghi / Milano / 1870
white marble
92cm., 36¼in.
Francesco Barzaghi was a key sculptor in the Scapigliatura movement in Milan. He was ambitious and prolific, contributing in as many international exhibitions as possible, always to great acclaim. Barzaghi studied at the Accademia di Brera before working on the project for the Duomo of Milan, where he was employed in carving saints. He is well-known for his numerous monuments such as his Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II in Lodi. Having built an international reputation, Barzaghi was given a post as profไessor at the Accademia di Brera in 1880 and continued to teach there until his death in 1892.
RELATED LITERATURE
A. Panzetta, Nuovo Dizionario degli Scultori Italiani dell'Ottocento e del Primo Novecento♐, Turin, 2003, vol. I, p. 76; //www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-barzaghi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ [accessed&n💙bsp;03 November 2019]