Ettore Ximenes
Ettore Ximenes (April 11, 1855, Palermo – December 20, 1926, Rome) was an Italian sculptor of mostly religious and mythological subjects.
Biography
Ximenes initially embarked on literary studies but then took up sculpture and attended the courses at the Palermo Academy of Fine Arts. His training was completed in close contact with the Neapolitan school of Verism as a pupil of Domenico Morelli and Stanislao Lista at the Naples Academy from 1872 on. He also established a close relationship with Vincenzo Gemito.
He returned to Palermo in 1874 and won a competition for a four-year grant, which enabled him to study Renaissance sculpture in Florence. He exhibited work in 1878 in Paris, where he came into contact with Auguste Rodin and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. On returning to Italy, he established his place on the art scene with a broad repertoire of portraits, genre works and funerary statuary, in which his initial realism gave way to Symbolist and Neo-Renaissance elements. In addition to sculpture, he also produced illustrations for the works of Edmondo De Amicis published by Treves. Ximenes was involved in all the major official monumental projects in Italy from the 1880s on and devoted his energies as from 1911 primarily to commissions for important public works in São Paulo, Kiev, New York and Buenos Aires.
Works
In Italy
- Bronze quadriga on Palace of Justice, Rome
In Russia
- Monument to Emperor Alexander II of Russia in Kiev (1911)
- Monument to Pyotr Stolypin in Kiev (1913)
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Alexander II of Russia, 1911 -
Pyotr Stolypin, 1913
In the United States
- Giovanni da Verrazzano Battery Park, Manhattan, New York, 1909[1]
- Dante Alighieri in Dante Park at Lincoln Center, New York City and in Meridian Hill Park, Washington D.C. - castings of the same work, 1921
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Verrazzano Monument, 1909 -
Dante, Washington, D.C.'s Meridian Hill Park -
La repubblica Argentina, 1900
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Bibliography
- Elena Lissoni, Ettore Ximenes, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for biography).
See also
- Dante Alighieri statue in Washington, D.C.
References
- See Dianne Durante, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide (New York University Press, 2007), with a discussion of the Verrazzano.
- Fried, Frederick & Edmund V. Gillon Jr., New York Civic Sculpture, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1976
- Goode, James M., The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1974
- Lederer, Joseph & Arley Bondarin, All Around Town: A Walking Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1975
- Mackay, James,The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977