Vincenzo Ragusa

Place: Palermo

Born: 1841

Death: 1927

Biography:

Vincenzo Ragusa was an Italian sculptor who lived in Meiji period Japan from 1876-1882. He introduced European techniques in bronze casting, and new methods of modeling in wood, clay, plaster and wire armatures which exerted a significant role in the development of the modern Japanese sculptural arts. He was born in Palermo, Italy in 1841 and died in Palermo, Italy in 1927.