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Giuseppe De Fabris – Paolo and Francesca and Raphael and the Fornarina

GIUSEPPE DE FABRIS  (Nove, Vicenza 1790 – Rome 1860)  Paolo and Francesca  1830 circa  Terracotta model, h 19.5 cm  Iscribed in pen under the base: “Fabris Giuseppe / disciple of Canova Antonio / in 1833 he was regent of the Accademia dei Virtuosi in the Pantheon”           Raphael and the Fornarina  1830 circa  Terracotta model, h 16.5 cm  Iscribed in pen under the base: “Fabris Giuseppe / Canova’s disciple”  Provenance: Rome, private collection   

Vincenzo Gemito – Head of a Young Boy, Piccolo Malatiello

Gemito Vincenzo Naples 1852-1929 Head of a Young Boy, Piccolo Malatiello • 1870 ca. Terracotta with slight patina, 11.5 x 9 x 12 cm Reference bibliography: Salvatore Di Giacomo, Vincenzo Gemito. La vita, l’opera, Naples 1905; Ottavio Morisani, Vita di Gemito, Naples 1936; Alfredo Schettini, Gemito, Milan 1944; Carlo Siviero, Gemito, Naples 1953; Maria Simonetta…

Giovacchino (Rome 1756-1822) e Pietro Belli (1780-1828) – Monument to Maria Christina of Austria, from Canova

Giovacchino (Rome 1756-1822) and Pietro Belli (1780-1828) Monument to Maria Cristina of Austria, from Canova 1815 ca. Carrara statuary marble, black marble, hammered bronze, chiseled and gilded with double gilding, 21.7 x 18.5 x 7 cm Provenance: Italy, private collection This very refined scale reduction of the Monument to Maria Cristina of Austria by Canova, judged by Stendhal to be the most beautiful monument ever built, testifies to the cult of contemporaries for the great sculptor and the collecting taste for precious replicas of his inventions in different techniques, from gilded bronze…