Giannino Castiglioni
Giannino Castiglioni (4 May 1884 – 27 August 1971) was an Italian sculptor and medallist. He worked mostly in monumental and funerary sculpture; his style was representational, and far from the modernist and avant-garde trends of the early twentieth century.
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Giannino Castiglioni

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- Name
- Giannino Castiglioni
- Born
- 4 May 1884
- Birthplace
- Milan, Italy
- Field
- sculpture, medals
- Training
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
- Movement
- Art Nouveau
- Died
- 27 August 1971
- Place of death
- Lierna, Italy
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy · Italy
- Occupation
- sculptor · painter · medalist · urban planner · architect · designer · visual artist
- Movements
- Art Nouveau · The Castiglioni Method
- Known for
- Redipuglia war memorial · Monte Grappa war memorial · Caporetto war memorial · Landscape from the view of Villa Natoli · Door of the Duomo Cathedral by Castiglioni · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Main Building
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Giannino Castiglioni (4 May 1884 – 27 August 1971) was an Italian sculptor and medallist. He worked mostly in monumental and funerary sculpture; his style was representational, and far from the modernist and avant-garde trends of the early twentieth century.
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Key facts
• Name — Giannino Castiglioni • Born — 4 May 1884 • Birthplace — Milan, Italy • Field — sculpture, medals • Training — Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera • Movement — Art Nouveau • Died — 27 August 1971 • Place of death — Lierna, Italy
Life
Life
• Illustration — Art Nouveau silver medallion for the Milan International Exhibition 1906; the obverse shows the Simplon Tunnel Giannino Castiglioni was born on 4 May 1884 in Milan, the son of Giacomo Castiglioni and Piera Bergamaschi. His father was director of the Stefano Johnson mint in that city. • Illustration — Giannino Castiglioni's signature Castiglioni studied sculpture under Enrico Butti at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. He first exhibited at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906, where he showed medals, a plaster statue and a painting. Castiglioni first opened a large studio on the Corso di Porta Nuova, and in 1927 he opened a second studio at his house in Lierna, on Lake Como. He married Livia Bolla, with whom he had four children: Livio (b. 1911), Pier Giacomo (b. 1913) and Achille (b. 1918). A daughter named Piera died in her infancy and is memorialised with a funerary sculpture by her father. He died in Lierna on 27 August 1971. • Illustration — Castiglioni family portrait with sons Achille, Livio, and Pier Giacomo (1922)
Work
Work
From 1922 until 1928 Castiglioni worked on the plaster casts for friezes and monumental sculptures for the Palacio Legislativo of Montevideo, Uruguay; these were shipped to Uruguay, and the bronze or marble sculptures were made there. In the Fascist era he worked on sculptures for war cemeteries and monuments to the dead of the First World War, including: the military memorial of Monte Grappa (1935) in the Veneto; the Tempio Ossario di Timau (1937) in the comune of Paluzza, Udine; the military ossuary of Caporetto, now Kobarid, Slovenia; and the war memorial of Redipuglia (1938) in the province of Gorizia. In 1941 he made the tomb of Pope Pius XI in the Vatican Grottoes.
Life and career
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1884
Giannino Castiglioni was born in 1884.
1910
The lighthouse of Lierna is dated 1910.
1911
Landscape from the view of Villa Natoli is dated 1911.
1925
Cristo Re (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) is dated 1925.
1925
Vittoria Alata is dated 1925.
1925
Monument of Antonio Bernocchi is dated 1925.
1926
Monument to the Victories of the Sky, the Sea and the Earth is dated 1926.
1926
Allegoria della Patria is dated 1926.
1926
Medaglia delle Scuole di arte e musica (1926) is dated 1926.
1926
Saint Francis Fountain is dated 1926.
1926
Queen Teodolinda Steps (Lierna) is dated 1926.
1931
Milano Centrale railway station is dated 1931.
1938
Redipuglia war memorial is dated 1938.
1938
Caporetto war memorial is dated 1938.
1960
Monument to the martyrs of piazzale Loreto is dated 1960.
1961
Scuola dell'Infanzia di Lierna is dated 1961.
1971
Giannino Castiglioni died at Lierna.
Reception
Castiglioni won the competition for the prize medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906. In 1922 he won the international competition to provide sculptures for the Palacio Legislativo of Montevideo. He left more than three hundred of his preparatory plaster casts to the comune of Lierna; a museum is to house them is under construction. • Illustration — El trabajo, bronze, Palacio Legislativo, Montevideo, Uruguay • Illustration — Tomb of Pius XI, St. Peter's, Rome • Illustration — Tomb of Antonio Bernocchi, Cimitero Monumentale di Milano

Giannino Castiglioni, Statue of Italian businessman and naturalist Marco De Marchi (1872-1936), on display in the courtyard of the "Museo del Risorgimento" in Milan, Italy.
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Emilio Sommariva (1883 - 1956) Ritratto dello scultore Giannino Castiglioni (1884-1971)
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