Raffaello Romanelli Italian, 1856 - 1928

This sculpture has been extensively restored with traces of white overpaint. The boy's fingers have been broken and restored and now show overpaint. The girl with two broken and repaired fingers. The moulded bottom register of base with several chips which have been saved. Some yellowing in places.
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Raffaelo Romanelli was the son and student of the distinguished Florentine sculptor Pasquale Romanelli. He also studied the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, under Augusto Rivalta and Emilio Zocchi. Aside from portrait bust and collectors' marbles, he was responsible for the monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi in Siena, and the equestrian bronze of King Carlo Alberto of Piedmont-Sardinia in Rome. After Pasquale Romanelli’s death in 1887, Raffaello and grandson Romano continued his legacy which lives on to the present day - the Romanelli studio (now a private museum) remains one of the few working studios in Florence.