Ivan Vitali
Illustration — Portrait by Vasily Tropinin, c. 1836, oils; Tretyakov Gallery Ivan Petrovich Vitali (1794–1855) was a Russian sculptor of Italian descent. Ivan Vitali was born in Saint Petersburg, he was apprenticed to his father, Pietro Vitali, from an early age.
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Ivan Vitali

Vasily Andreevich Tropinin · Public domain
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- 1794 · Saint Petersburg.
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- 1855 · Saint Petersburg.
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- Imperial Academy of Arts
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Illustration — Portrait by Vasily Tropinin, c. 1836, oils; Tretyakov Gallery Ivan Petrovich Vitali (1794–1855) was a Russian sculptor of Italian descent. Ivan Vitali was born in Saint Petersburg, he was apprenticed to his father, Pietro Vitali, from an early age.
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After attending the Imperial Academy of Arts he moved to Moscow in 1818. His major works include a six-horse chariot for Bove's Triumphal Arch, a fountain in front of the Bolshoi Theatre (1825), the bas-reliefs above the doors of St. Isaac's Cathedral, and an outdoor bronze statue of Emperor Paul in Gatchina.
• Large headboard group crowning the Bauman Higher Technical School in Moscow, formerly the Trade Educationa Establishment technical training center. 1820s. • No. 14 Solyanka street, designed by Giacomo Gilardi, bas reliefs, 1823-26 • No. 14 Leninsky Prospekt, gateway pillars (1835), and a fountain in the forecourt that "originally stood in Dzerzhinsky Square." • Illustration — The statue of Venus removing her sandals (Stuttgart) • Illustration — The statue of Emperor Paul in Gatchina • Illustration — Petrovka Fountain in Moscow • Illustration — Vitali's fountain in the Neskuchny Garden • Illustration — St. Isaac's Cathedral
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Ivan Vitali is recorded as sculptor and architect.

Karl Bryullov, Ivan Vitali, c. 1836–1837, Tretyakov Gallery 5059; from goskatalog.ru
Karl Bryullov · Брюллов Карл Павлович. Портрет скульптора И. П. Витали | Государственный каталог Музейного фонда Российской Федерации
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1794
Ivan Vitali born at Saint Petersburg.
1855
Ivan Vitali died at Saint Petersburg.
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Vitali, Ivan, Oxford Art Online, 2003
Prince Boris Nikolaevich Yusupov (1794–1849) and sculptor Ivan Petrovich Vitali (1794–1855)
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- Mears, Bernard. Moscow: Architecture and Monuments. Progress Publishers. 1968.
- Krivdina, Olga A. Эпоха Марка Антокольского. Buksmart. 14–43. 2020. 978-5-907043-97-8.
- Ramazanov, Nikolai A. Материалы для истории художеств в России. Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 2014. 978-5-336-00162-4.
- Якирина Т. В., Одноралов Н. В., Витали, Л.-М., 1960.
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