Michele Tripisciano

Michele Tripisciano ( born July 13, 1860 in Caltanissetta, † September 21, 1913 ) was an Italian sculptor from Sicily.

Life

Tripisciano came in 1873 through the promotion of Baron Luigi Guglielmo Lanzirotti and another patron to Rome to study at the Ospizio San Michele. Between 1880 and 1888 he worked in the sculpture studio of Francesco Fabi- Altini ( 1830-1906 ).

In 1884 he received from the Accademia, the San Luca with a silver medal for his sculpture " Caius Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage ".

In 1890 he opened his own workshop in Rome, he created portrait busts, cemetery sculptures and figures from history, mythology and Christianity. When he returned to Caltanissetta, is not documented.

In 1900 Tripisciano was honored by King Umberto I with the award of the Knight's Cross.

Works (selection)

  • Piazza Garibaldi (Caltanissetta ): sculptural group "Triton and seahorses " (1890)
  • Sculptural group " Christopher Columbus takes leave of the Father " from 1892 ( in the form of Baron Lanzirotti and the father of Tripiscione )
  • Marble sculpture "Enthroned Madonna and Child" (1895 ) for the chapel of Conte Testasecca in the cemetery Angeli in Caltanissetta. A copy thereof was made for Chiese del Corpus Domini in Milan and Notre Dame in Paris
  • " Orpheus " issued in 1898 in Saint Petersburg
  • " Paul and Cicero " (1898 ) for the Palace of Justice in Rome
  • Chiesa di San Gioacchino in Rome: 12 Apostles Medallions (1902 ) and the statue of Joseph and of the Sacred Heart (1904 )
  • "Crucifixion " in Bronze (1904 ) Tripiscianos a gift to the Church of Santa Lucia in Caltanissetta
  • Monumento Vittorio Emanuele II, the Villa Amedeo in Caltanissetta (1891 )
  • Marble relief " La Sicilia " (1909 )
  • Corso Umberto in Caltanissetta: Bronze monument to Umberto I. ( 1910, 1922 placed here )
  • Chiesa di Sant'Andrea della Valle ( Rome): marble relief of "Baptism of Jesus " (1912 )
  • Piazza Gioacchino Belli (Rome, Trastevere ): marble monument to the poet Gioacchino Belli (1913 )
  • The Atelier estate is owned by the city of Caltanissetta.
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