Giovanni Maria Benzoni

Giovanni Maria Benzoni ( born August 28, 1809 in Songavazzo, Bergamo Province, † April 28, 1873 in Rome ) was an Italian neoclassical sculptor.

Benzoni studied at the Academia di Belle Arti in Lovere. From 1828, he was a pupil of Giuseppe Fabris at the Academy of San Luca in Rome and "[ ... ] showed in smaller lyrical and allegorical works a free unbound grace. " Benzoni found his motifs mainly in Greek mythology and the Bible. In Rome, " [ ... ] he ran a large workshop, which often yielded only workmanlike job."

His most successful work is the Veiled Rebecca ( ​​1866 ) in marble. Rebecca wearing a veil, but succeeded the artist to make these translucent, so they the viewer in its full beauty presents itself. Wealthy friends of art commissioned Benzoni to customize it in several copies. Today, each showing a version of the Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia and the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

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Cupid

Dante