Vittorio Lavezzari

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Tomba Giovanni Fossati - Staglieno 1903

Vittorio Lavezzari (Genoa, 1864 - Genoa, 1938) was an Italian sculptor of the Liberty period, specializing in funerary sculputure. His sculptures can mostly be seen in Genoa in the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno.

Biography[]

Born in Genoa, he attended the Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa, where he was a pupil of Scanzi (he worked at the Carpaneto tomb), and later became a professor (in 1894 he was appointed academic of merit for the sculpture class and present until 1938 year of his death). He completed his studies in Rome and then in Florence where he stayed for some years between 1880 and 1890

Present at the Promoter of Genovese since 1883 (he exhibited a portrait of Rossini), he oriented himself in these years in a veristic direction with a progressive accentuation of social themes.

Repetto spouses' tomb (1897) Among the works of this period are poor father my (1889), pescatorino (1892) reproduced as a prize for the Promoter's competitions: a notable success was also presented at the Chicago Universal Exposition of 1893.

At the end of the 1890s, his funeral production was intensified and assumed symbolist-liberty characteristics.

He participated in national and international exhibitions, received important awards, was present at exhibitions in Venice, Vienna, Munich, Paris, London, Chicago. His works are present in Russia, Brazil and Argentina.

He was part of the Genovese Artistic Family and was in a friendly relationship with the painters Andrea Figari, Guido Meineri, Lazzaro Luxardo Cesare Viazzi, Angelo Costa, Giuseppe Pennasilico, and the sculptors Pietro Albino and Lorenzo Orengo, with whom he shared the spirit of renewal that animated the art world between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

His funeral production was really copious, some works are visible at the monumental Cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa.

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