Giovanni maria benzoni biography of mahatma
Giovanni maria benzoni biography of mahatma
The sculpture romantics - Sunday Observer.
By Costanza Beltrami
The Neoclassical sculptor Giovanni Maria (or Giammaria) Benzoni was born on 28 August 1809 in Songavazzo, near Bergamo.
His parents, farmers of modest means, intended him to learn carpentry in an uncle’s workshop. Working as apprentice carpenter, Benzoni revealed his precocious artistic skill. Impressed by his abilities, the art enthusiast Count Luigi Tadini offered him a place at his Academy of Fine Arts in Lovere, a nearby town.
Giovanni maria benzoni
Tadini later financed Benzoni’s move to Rome, where the artist finished his studies at the Academy of Saint Luke. His elegant marble sculptures, clearly inspired by Antonio Canova, were an immediate success in the city. He soon established a studio numbering more than 50 assistants.
Overall, this studio produced more than 518 works, including multiple versions of popular compositions.
Benzoni sculpted allegorical and mythological scenes, but also busts and funerary monuments for contemporary celebrities, for exampl