Ettore Ximenes
Ettore Ximenes ( born April 11, 1855 in Palermo, † December 20, 1926 in Rome ) was an Italian sculptor of religious and mythological motifs.
Life
1868 - 1871 Accademia di Belle Arti in Palermo, especially under the aegis of the sculptor Vincenzo Ragusa here (* 1844)
1872 - 1874 Academy of Fine Arts in Naples at Domenico Morelli and Stanislao Lista. The greatest influence on Ximenes took here but Vincenzo Gemito.
1874 - 1880 stay in Florence, where he lived on a scholarship. Here he worked intensively with the various facets of Renaissance sculpture, which has established its eklektistischen tendencies.
In 1880 he went to Paris, where he was severely dealt with the work of Auguste Rodin and Jean -Baptiste Carpeaux.
Upon his return to Italy an extraordinary, intense period of artistic creation began.
1884 - 1895 Director of the Istituto Statale was Ximenes d' Arte in Urbino.
Reception
Ximenes ' style is available in the career strictly realistic and partly influenced by the Renaissance revival of the late 19th century in Italy. He planned 1913-1920 nor a monument to Giuseppe Verdi in Parma, but it is only one bronze relief in Piazza Marconi. Other works can be seen in New York, Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Kiev. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878 Ximenes ' Plastic L' Equilibrio was awarded a gold medal.