Francesco Barzaghi

Italian sculptor

Francesco Barzaghi (1839–1892) was an Italian sculptor.

Born in Milan, Austrian Empire, he had his initial training in the studios of Antonio Tantardini and a sculptor called Puttinati. He enrolled in the Accademia di Brera. Among his colleagues was Vincenzo Vela. The sculptor Enrico Cassi was one of his pupils.

Barzaghi completed a number of monuments, including the bronze equestrian statued dedicated to Napoleon III, first unveiled in 1881 at the Exposition of Milan. He also made monuments to Luciano Manara and Garibaldi (1888). He made many marble female figures, including:^[1]

La Frine denudata
La Mosca cieca
Silvia che si specchia (Paris Exposition 1878)
Moses saved from the Nile (Paris Exposition 1878)
L' innocenza (won a prize in Turin 1881)
Psiche
La Vanerella

Monument to Francesco Hayez, Milan
Detail (Hayez Monument)
Monument to Luciano Manara (Milan)
Monument to Niccolò Tommaseo (Venice)
Monument to Alessandro Manzoni in Piazza San Fedele, Milan
Vanarella, Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret de Nice (Alpes-Maritimes, France)

References

^ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 39.