Lot 134: Pio Fedi

Pio Fedi
Italian, 1816-1892
after the antique
a bust of minerva
signed and dated: QUESTA COPIA / Fô FATTA du P. Fedi NEL 1850
weathered white marble
49.5 cm., 19 1/2 in.
Pio Fedi attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and studied under the famous Italian sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini. He spent time in Vienna and Rome, where he worked in Pietro Tenerani's workshop (see lot 136) and executed a Cleopatra morente (1842) and a Buon cacciatore (1843). He returned to Florence around 1844 where he received a number of prominent commissions for public monuments as well as neo-classical and genre works for private patrons.
Related literature: Panzetta, p.122