Giuseppe Franchi
Illustration — Franchi's mermaids on Piazza Fontana Giuseppe Franchi (1731 – 11 February 1806) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor. After studying Neoclassical art in Rome under Johann Joachim Winckelmann, he taught at the Brera Academy in Milan from its beginning in 1776, where he worked with the architect Giuseppe Piermarini. Among his Milan works are decorations for the Royal Palace, for the facade of the Teatro alla Scala and for Karl Joseph von Firmian's monument in the Church of San Bartolomeo.
Also recorded as Jos. Franchi
Giuseppe Franchi
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- Born
- 1731 · Carrara.
- Died
- 1806 · Milan.
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Fields
- Neoclassicism
- Teachers
- Jean-Baptiste Boudard
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Franchi's mermaids on Piazza Fontana Giuseppe Franchi (1731 – 11 February 1806) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor. After studying Neoclassical art in Rome under Johann Joachim Winckelmann, he taught at the Brera Academy in Milan from its beginning in 1776, where he worked with the architect Giuseppe Piermarini. Among his Milan works are decorations for the Royal Palace, for the facade of the Teatro alla Scala and for Karl Joseph von Firmian's monument in the Church of San Bartolomeo.
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In 1782, he sculpted the mermaids and dolphins for Piermarini's fountain at Piazza Fontana. Among his pupils was Angelo Pizzi.
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1731
Giuseppe Franchi born at Carrara.
1806
Giuseppe Franchi died at Milan.
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Franchi, Giuseppe, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Franchi, Giuseppe and Margherita, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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- 1.Brook (cf. liens externes).
- 2.Arnault, .
- 3.Larousse, .
- 4.Hoefer, .
- 5.Journal des Arts, des sciences et de la littérature, 25 brumaire an X [16 novembre 1801], .
- 6.Pinacothèque royale de Milan (Palais Brera), Milan, Civelli, 1883, .
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Antoine-Vincent Arnault (dir.), Biographie nouvelle des contemporains, t. 7, Paris, Librairie historique, 1822, .
- Ferdinand Hoefer (dir.), Nouvelle Biographie générale, t. 18, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1857, .
- Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, t. 8, Paris, 1872, .
- Carolina Brook. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. 50. 1998.
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He trained under Jean-Baptiste Boudard. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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