Ivan Vitali
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A portrait by Vasily Tropinin
Ivan Petrovich Vitali (Russian: Иван Петрович Витали; 1794–1855) was a Russian sculptor of Italian descent. Born in Saint Petersburg, he was apprenticed to his father, Pietro Vitali, from an early age. After attending the Imperial Academy of Arts he moved to Moscow in 1818. His major works include a six-horse chariot for Bove's Triumphal Arch, a fountain in front of the Bolshoi Theatre (1825),[1] the bas-reliefs above the doors of St. Isaac's Cathedral, and an outdoor bronze statue of Emperor Paul in Gatchina.
Works[]
- Large headboard group crowning the Bauman Higher Technical School in Moscow, formerly the Trade Educationa Establishment technical training center. 1820s.[2]
- No. 14 Solyanka street, designed by , bas reliefs, 1823-26[3]
- No. 14 Leninsky Prospekt, gateway pillars (1835), and a fountain in the forecourt that "originally stood in Dzerzhinsky Square."[4]
St. Isaac's Cathedral
Bolshoi Fountain
References[]
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- ^ Mears 1968, p. 131.
- ^ Mears 1968, p. 127.
- ^ Mears 1968, p. 149.
- ^ Mears 1968, p. 155.
Bibliography[]
- Mears, Bernard (1968). Moscow: Architecture and Monuments. Translated by Bean. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
- Якирина Т. В., Одноралов Н. В., Витали, Л.-М., 1960.
Categories:
- Russian artist stubs
- European sculptor stubs
- 19th-century Russian sculptors
- 19th-century male artists
- Russian male sculptors
- Neoclassical sculptors
- Russian people of Italian descent
- 1794 births
- 1855 deaths
- People from Saint Petersburg
- Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery