Tito Sarrocchi

Tito Sarrocchi ( born January 5, 1824 in Siena, † July 30, 1900 ibid ) was an Italian sculptor.

Life

Tito Sarrocchi was born on 5 January 1824, the son of Antonio and Rosa Sarrocchi Mancini and grew up in Siena. His birthplace is located in the present-day Via Tito Sarrocchi 3 in the third Terzo di Città city in the Contrada Tartuca ( turtle). At the age of fifteen, he moved to Florence to study there in the Accademia di belle arti di Firenze under Lorenzo Bartolini. Then learned and he worked in the workshop of the originating also from Siena Giovanni Duprè. He himself taught his artwork at Cesare Maccari and Giuseppe Cassioli, the designer of the coin for the Olympic Summer Games. In 1855 he returned from Florence to Siena back. Among his most famous works of the central fountain of the Piazza del Campo in Siena, Fonte Gaia is one called. Sarrocchi replaced here from 1858 to 1868, the heavily damaged panels Jacopo della Quercia of. Here, the well was 9.60 meters and 1.60 meters south -west offset to now to appear on the Piazza in front of Palazzo dei Nobili Casino. The old figures of Jacopo della Quercia are now in Fienile mentioned in the Museum of Santa Maria della Scala, where in addition to the original figures and the plaster casts for the design of copies of Sarrocchi are issued. Also in Santa Maria della Scala are located in the Sala di San Giuseppe ( Gipsoteca ) since 1999, about two hundred sculptures by the artist in plaster, which emerged after the return of the sculptor from Florence to Siena by 1855. Sarrocchi put it on the advice of his friend Giuseppe Partini the city of Siena in 1894 are available.

On May 22, 1861 he married Ernesta Gani, who died in a miscarriage already on 8 September of the following year. His second marriage took place on 29 September 1867, with Emma Pallini of Grosseto, with whom he had three children ( Gino, * 1870, Adele, ( 1872-1937, later married the son of Giuseppe Partini ); Guiditta, * September 18, 1874 ). From 1873 he worked for the Italian government in the Giunta Superiore di Belle Arti in Ministero della Public Education with. He died on July 30, 1900 to 15.45 clock at his home on the Piazza Pianigiani (today Piazza Matteotti ). In his honor, the Via Tito Sarrocchi named in Siena after him. In 1901 a bust of him performing sculptor Arnoldo Prunai was exhibited in the Sala del Risorgimento in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. She was provided with a dedication of Vittorio Bandini by the Istituto Pendola: A Tito Sarrocchi Maestro del bello stile nella scultura sull'ali della fede Salito all'eccellenza dell'arte vanto e decoro di Siena, erede e dei suoi custode Gelosa ammiratissimi studi i reggitori del municipio L' Anno MDCCCCI decretarono Concordi questa memoria

Works (selection)

  • L' Angelo della Resurrezione, located in the Cappella Ciseri - De Metz
  • Clementina Cresti Partini, grave bust
  • Ezechiele Resuscitation i morti, 1879 originated, is located in the Cappella Placidi
  • Il genio della morte 1860 originated, is located in the Cappella Venturi Gallerani
  • La Fede, Speranza e la la Carita, in existence by 1868, is located in the Cappella Tadini - Boninsegni
  • Le virtù teologali
  • Riconoscenza, located in the Cappella Bandini Piccolomini
  • Tobia, also called Tobia seppellisce i morte, 1873 originated, is located in the Cappella D' Elci - Pannocchieschi
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