Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

Marble statue of Maria Beatrice d'Este with a staff and a scroll, and an eagle at her foot, on a tall pedestal made by Lorenzo Bartolini enriched by bas-reliefs by three different sculptors. At the base of the pedestal there is a platform with steps ending against a sphinx (usually called 'il leone', the lion; copied after an exemplar in the Louvre) under which two streams of water pouring into a marble basin.

Carrara (right, with in the background the mountain, and the river god of the Carrione) and Minerva with the genius of sculpture (left) Sculpted by Giovanni Tacca

Arunte (an Etruscan haruspex, character of Lucan's Pharsalia and quoted in the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri) in the midst of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Sculpted by Matteo Bogazzi

Maria Beatrice with Charity, Justice, and Religion Sculpted by Giuseppe del Nero

Inscription(s)

in optatissimo adventv MARIAE BEATRICIS dvlcis optimae svavissimaeqve magistratvs et popvlvs carrariensis exvltationis fidelitatis obseqvii perpetvvm monvmentvm anno salvtis mdcccxvi

Sculptors

• Lorenzo Bartolini (Vernio 1777 - Firenze/Florence 1850), Italian sculptor (Wikipedia).
  
• Matteo Bogazzi, Italian sculptor.
  
• Giuseppe del Nero, Italian sculptor.
  
• Pietro Fontana (Carrara 1782 - Carrara 1847), Italian sculptor (Dizionario Biografico).
  
• Giovanni Tacca (1803 - 1831), Italian sculptor.

Sources & Information

• Wikipedia, Carrara.
• XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, 2010, p. 187 (PDF on-line).
• Marbleland, Carrara.
• Edoardo De Carli, Chi era Costui?
• Soprintendenza patrimonio storico, artistico ed etnoantropologico e per i beni architettonici e paesaggio per le Province di Lucca e Massa Carrara, Carrara - Statuaria pubblica e installazioni.

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