Ettore Ximenes ( Italian: Ettore Ximenes ; 1855 , Palermo - 1926 , Rome ) - Italian sculptor, creator of numerous monuments in the Old and New Worlds .
Biography
From 1868 to 1871 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. From 1872 to 1874 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples under the auspices of Domenico Morelli and Stanislao Liszt . The following years he spent in Florence , where he studied the sculpture of the Renaissance and where he developed a commitment to eclecticism . In 1880 he moved to Paris , where he met Auguste Rodin and Jean-Baptiste Carpo . After returning to Italy, Ximenezβs life began an unusually productive creative period. From 1884 to 1895 , he ruled the State Institute of the Arts in Urbino .
Ximenes style is different realism , as well as the influence of the Italian neo-renaissance of the late XIX century . The works of Ximenes were installed in New York , Buenos Aires , Milan , Kiev and Sao Paulo . In Kiev, in particular, he was the author of two non-preserved monuments - Alexander II (1911) and Peter Stolypin (1913).
At the 1878 World's Fair, the gold medal was awarded to the work of Ximenes L'Equilibrio ("equilibrium").
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