European Sculpture and Works of Art 900-1900

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Lot 80
  • 80

Luigi Bienaimé Italian, 1795-1878

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Description

  • Luigi Bienaimé
  • the guardian angel
  • white marble
  • 82cm., 32¼in.

Catalogue Note

Bienaimé’s original plaster (155cm) of The Guardian Angel is in the Gispsoteca of the Accademia di Belle Arti, Carrara. Dated 1831, it was designed in Rome and epitomises the deep influence of his master, Thorvaldsen. The delicate sentiment and restrained pathos of this group inspired generations of memorial and funerary sculpture and it has rightly become one of Bienaimé's most successful compositions.

RELATED LITERATURE

R. Carozzi, ‘La scuola di Carrara tra Canova e Bartolini’, p.250 in Scultura Marmo Lavoro, exhib. cat. Carrara, 1981; J.B. Hartmann, La Triade Italiana del Thorvaldsen alcune considerazioni su temi mitologici e cristiani, pp.106-107