Odoardo Fantacchiotti

Odoardo Fantacchiotti (11 May 1811 – 4 June 1877) was an Italian sculptor of the late-Neoclassic period.

Biography

He was born in Rome, but his family moved to Florence. In 1820, he enrolled in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze.

At the Academy, he studied under S. Ricci, and first started exhibiting in 1828. Gaining the patronage of the Grand Duke, he continued his studies, following the ideas of Andrea Costolli of depicting the "bello naturale". In 1839 at the Academy, he exhibited the work of the Massacre of the Innocents. Om 1840 he was named professor at the Academy.

Among his public works are the statue of Boccaccio and dell'Accorso for the ground floor niches of the Uffizi, medallions commemorating Francesco Redi and the bust of Ferdinando II de' Medici for the Museo della Specola, a statue of Sallustio Bandini (now at the Accademia dei Georgofili, but initially planned for the Ufizzi loggia).[1] A marble Virgin and Child relief by Fantacchiotti at the Victoria and Albert Museum was once mistake for a work by a Renaissance master.[2] He died in Florence.

References

  1. ↑ SIUSA archives of cultural goods, short biography.
  2. ↑ Fake?: The Art of Deception edited by Mark Jones, Paul T. Craddock, Nicolas Barker. page 197.
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