Costantino Corti
Illustration — Engraving of the colossal statue Lucifer by Costantino Corti Costantino Corti (1823/1824–1873) was a Milanese sculptor who exhibited in Brera, Florence, London, and Paris. Corti was most noted for his colossal statue Lucifer. He also produced statues commemorating Federico Borromeo, Conrad of Swabia, and the astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi.
Costantino Corti
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Illustration — Engraving of the colossal statue Lucifer by Costantino Corti Costantino Corti (1823/1824–1873) was a Milanese sculptor who exhibited in Brera, Florence, London, and Paris. Corti was most noted for his colossal statue Lucifer. He also produced statues commemorating Federico Borromeo, Conrad of Swabia, and the astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi.
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Corti's marble Lucifer (sometimes titled as Satan) was commissioned by the Count d'Aquila, brother of the former king of Naples. At the end of the 19th century, a traveller and amateur critic offered this assessment of the work: Lucifer was reviewed by Francesco dall'Ongaro at rhapsodic length as a worthy representation of the Satanic ideal shared in the literary works of John Milton or Lord Byron. Dall' Ongaro found the figure "androgynous," in keeping with the theological view that gender came into existence only with the creation of human beings and was not a characteristic of angels. The sculpture received notice for its "extraordinary vigour." Corti's monument to Cardinal Borromeo was commissioned in 1861 for the plaza of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana. The statue was completed in 1864 and dedicated the following year. The statue of Giuseppe Piazzi, dedicated in 1871, is located in the main plaza of Ponte in Valtellina, the astronomer's birthplace.
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1823
Costantino Corti born at Belluno.
1873
Costantino Corti died at Milan.
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- 1.It is unclear whether the subject was Conrad III of Germany or Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor.
- 2.Nuove effemeridi Siciliane di scienze, lettere ed arti (Palermo, 1871), vol. 3, p. 480 online.
- 3.James Jackson Jarves, Art Thoughts: The Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe (Boston, 1896), p. 174 online.
- 4.Francesco dall' Ongaro, L'arte italiana a Parigi nell'esposizione universale del 1867 (Florence, 1869), pp. 137–145.
- 5.Con vigore straordinario, C. Jacopo Cavalluci, Manuale di storia della scultura (Turin, 1884), p. 404.
- 6.Giuseppe Mongeri, "Monumento al Cardinale Federico Borromeo," in L'arte in Milano (Milan, 1872), p. 523 online. See also Guida sommaria per il visitatore della Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan, 1907), p. 25 online.
- 7.Guida alla Valtellina ed alle sue acque minerali (Sondrio, 1884) p. 239 online.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Clement, Clara Erskine, and Laurence Hutton. Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works: A Handbook. Houghton, Mifflin, 1889, 5th ed., vol. 1, p. 162 online.
- Corna, Andrea. Dizionario della storia dell'arte in Italia. C. & C. Tarantola, 1915, p. 196.
- Thieme, Ulrich. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig, 1912, vol. 7, p. 485 online.
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