Ettore Ferrari

Place: Rome

Born: 1845

Death: 1929

Biography:

Ettore Ferrari was an Italian sculptor born in Rome in 1845. He was part of the artistic rebirth in the secular state born after the Italian Unification. Ferrari was a professor at the Accademia di San Luca, a deputy in the Italian Parliament and Grand Master of the Grande Oriente d'Italia, the main Masonic body in Italy. He is known for his work on the Victor Emmanuel II Monument in Rome, as well as statues of Ovid, Giuseppe Garibaldi, and Giordano Bruno. Ferrari died in Rome in 1929.