Mario Rutelli

Mario Rutelli ( born April 4, 1859 in Palermo, † November 4, 1941 ) was an Italian sculptor and bronze caster.

Life

In Palermo he received his first artistic training at the Academy of Fine Arts under Salvatore Valenti ( 1835-1903 ). He then worked as a stonemason for the Teatro Massimo in his native town, in 1877, he worked under Benedetto Civiletti in the bronze lion and the allegorical female figures of the Muses at the theater. In 1879 he went to Rome to Giulio Monteverde and Ercole Rosa.

Back in Palermo, he and Civiletti worked at Quadriga and several individual statues at the Teatro Politeama. In the same year he became head of Fonderia Artistica in Palermo. In 1903 he became professor of sculpture at the Real Istituto di Belle Arti.

Works (selection)

  • Piazza Verdi ( Palermo): Bronze Lion (left) in front of the Teatro Massimo, an allegorical marble sculpture " Comedy " (the " tragedy " comes from Benedetto Civiletti ), " apoteose of Vittorio Emanuele " and allegorical female figure " Poetry " (1877 ).
  • Piazza Giulio Cesare (Palermo): equestrian statue in bronze " Vittorio Emanuele II " from 1886
  • Piazza della Repubblica ( Rome): " Fontana delle Naiadi " (1901 )
  • Piazza Sforza Cesarini ( Rome): Monument to Nicola Spedalieri (1903 )
  • Monreale: Fontane di Tritone (1905 )
  • Gianicolo ( Rome): Monument to Anita Garibaldi
  • Monumento Vittorio Emanuele II ( Rome): a Victoria
  • Politeama (Palermo): Bronze sculpture group of the Quadriga (together with Benedetto Civiletti.
  • Giardino Garibaldi (Palermo): relief with lions on the monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • Giardino Inglese: Several busts " Domenico Morelli ," " Giuseppe Maielli " and Edmondo De Amicis
  • Palazzo Francavilla (Palermo): medallions of the Dukes of Sperlinga (together with Benedetto Civiletti )
  • Catania: Equestrian monument to Umberto I.
  • Piazza Armerina: bust on a pedestal monument " King Umberto I"
  • Agrigento: fountain and monument
  • Basilica of Maria Santissima Annunziata ( Comiso ): baptismal font in bronze and marble (1913 )
  • Munich: Monument to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Aberystwyth in Wales Victory Column ( 22m high) in memory of the dead of the first world war
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