Innocente Fraccaroli

Plaats: Castelrotto Di Valpolicella (Verona)

Geboren: 1805

Dood: 1882

Biografie:

Innocenzo Fraccaroli was an Italian sculptor. He was born on December 28, 1805 in Castelrotto di Valpolicella, Italy. He was a student at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts and won the Brera Academy’s prize for sculpture in 1829. This allowed him to complete his studies in Rome from 1830 to 1835, where he met and mixed with some of the greatest sculptors of the day, including Thorvaldsen and Pietro Tenerani. Upon returning to Milan in 1836, he focused on mythological subjects and portraiture, adopting a style of austere Neoclassical ancestry but with unprecedented expressive intensity. He was a regular participant in the Brera exhibitions and attained full recognition with participation in the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London and the Universal Exhibition of 1855 in Paris. In the 1850s, he produced openly patriotic works. His activities diminished in the 1860s due to lack of success in major competitions for public monuments and failure to obtain the chair in sculpture at the Brera Academy. The years of his maturity saw a particular focus on religious works and commemorative monuments. In 1876, he retired from the world of art and donated the plaster models of his most important works to the Museo Civico in Verona. He died in Milan in 1882.