Augusto Passaglia
Augusto Passaglia (1838 in Lucca – 1918 in Florence) was an Italian sculptor. • Illustration — Bronze doors of the Duomo of Florence. Among his first works were a bronze Art and Science (sold to private buyer in St Petersburg, Russia), and a larger than life statue of the writer Boccaccio, erected in the town of the writer's birthplace, Certaldo. He also sculpted a young Benvenuto Cellini, annoyed of having to play the flute for his father, lays the instrument on his stool, and stretches in an act of extreme disgust.
Augusto Passaglia
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- 1838 · Lucca.
- Died
- 1918 · Florence.
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- Kingdom of Italy
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- sculptor
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Augusto Passaglia (1838 in Lucca – 1918 in Florence) was an Italian sculptor. • Illustration — Bronze doors of the Duomo of Florence. Among his first works were a bronze Art and Science (sold to private buyer in St Petersburg, Russia), and a larger than life statue of the writer Boccaccio, erected in the town of the writer's birthplace, Certaldo. He also sculpted a young Benvenuto Cellini, annoyed of having to play the flute for his father, lays the instrument on his stool, and stretches in an act of extreme disgust.
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Born at Lucca in 1838, died in Florence in 1918.
Augusto Passaglia (1838–1918) was an Italian sculptor.
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