Lot 218: PIO FEDI

IMMORTALITA
signed PIO FEDI FECE FIRENZE 1883.

height 40 1/4 in. 102 cm

white carrara marble

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 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.