Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Giovanni or Gian Battista Sommariva (died 6 January 1826, Milan) was an Italian politician in the Cisalpine Republic and the Second French Republic, as well as a notable arts patron.

Bust of G.B. Sommariva by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1817

Life

Family

Portraits
gollark: I really think you're overestimating how much people actually care. There have been various experiments regarding obedience and conformity which suggest that people will basically just do whatever people around them do.
gollark: Consider dying, for instance. People dying is quite bad for a variety of reasons, but because people can't really avoid it it got cognitive-dissonanced into being "good" in a ton of philosophies.
gollark: What?
gollark: I mean, I think people can get used to a lot of things with sufficient time.
gollark: The amount of often-conflicting ones is not really a point in their favour.

References

    Bibliography
    • Gabriella Tassinari - Incisori in pietre dure e collezionisti a Milano nel primo ottocento: il caso di Antonio Berini e Giovanni Battista Sommariva - Le gemme incise nel settecento e ottocento - Continuità della tradizione classica. (Atti del Convegno di studio, Udine, 26 settembre 1998). Editore L'Erma di Bretschneider 2006
    • P.E. Visconti - Notizia delle opera dell'incisore in pietre dure e in coni Cav. Giuseppe Girometti - Roma tipografia Boulzaler 1833 Dedicato alla Eminenza Reverendissima del Sig. cardinale Mario Mattei
    • Patrick Kragelund, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Mogens Nykjær Thorvaldsen: l'ambiente, l'influsso, il mito edito da L'Erma di Breitschneider 1991 pag.96
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