Professor Francesco Fabi-Altini
Other names: Fabj Altini and Fabj-Altini
Born 1830
Died 1906
Active: 1880 - 1881
Country of birth and death: Italy
Sculptor
He studied at the Roman Accademia di Belle Arti and then at the Accademia di San Luca under Tadolini. He completed his apprenticeship under Tenerani. Altini was also an Associate of the Academy of the Academy of Ferrara and an Academician of the Academies of Perugia and Bologna.
Altini's most famous monuments are the colossal figures of Meditation and Prayer, with which he won the Roman competition and now stand at the entrance gates of the Campo Santo, at Verona. Altini's studio was in Rome, but he often sent work abroad, on commission or to be exhibited. For example, there is a statue of 'Adam and Eve' at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California.
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Works
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Thomas Purdie, Esq., Castlecliff, St Andrews
1880 (Probable)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Fourth, 1880
'Thomas Purdie, Esq., Castlecliff, St Andrews'
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the eleventh (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1881
1881
The Genius of Harmony (cat. no. 1428, £105); David before the flight, with the Giant Goliath (cat. no. 1434, £735).
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1881
Exhibited once, David, statue, marble (cat no 1441)
Sources
Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1881 Walker Art Gallery
1881
p. 82.
Citing this record
'Professor Francesco Fabi-Altini', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1278493994, accessed 01 Apr 2023]
