POMPEO MARCHESI

(Saltrio, 1783 - Milan, 1858) Bust of a gentleman Marble Signed and dated in the border P. Marchesi f. Milan 1828 Minor defects, few chipping and missing, slight scratches H. cm 51 (total h. cm 64), W. cm 49, D. cm 40 A MARBLE BUST BY POMPEO MARCHESI; MINOR DEFECTS, FEW CHIPS AND LOSSES, MINOR SCRATCHES Pompeo Marchesi, among the most important exponents of Lombard neoclassicism, after his studies at Brera, in 1804 moved to Rome, where at the Academy he perfected his skills under Antonio Canova. Returning to Milan, between 1810 and 1858 (the year of his death) he was engaged in two major construction sites; at the Fabbrica del Duomo, where he made, among many others, the famous sculptures of Saints Philip, Ambrose and Ezekiel, and in the same years (from 1813) at the Arco della Pace. Also known for portraiture, he executed for Brera the busts of Carlo Porta (1822), Giuseppe Longhi (1834) and the monument to Cesare Beccaria (1837). And also from those years is ours, which although without certainty could be identified in the togato marble bust exhibited by Marchesi at the Milanese athenaeum in 1829 and depicting perhaps, the effigy of the lawyer Rocco Marliani, who died in 1826. We thank Prof. Omar Cucciniello, Conservator of GAM, for the historical information Reference bibliography: A. Panzetta, Dictionary of Italian Sculptors of the Nineteenth Century, Turin 1990, pp. 101-102 S. Grandesso, La scultura, ed. in L'Ottocento in Italia. The sister arts. Il Romanticismo, 1815-1848, Milan 2006, pp. 185-187 O. Cucciniello, Neoclassical Romanticism. Pompeo Marchesi sculptor collector, exhibition edited by, Milan Villa Reale March 1 ; June 18, 2023, Rome 2023, ad vocem