Scipione Tadolini

Scipione Tadolini (1822–1893) was an Italian sculptor in the Tadolini family, son of sculptor Adamo Tadolino (1788-1868), one of Antonio Canova's main assistants, brother of the sculptor Tito Tadolini (1828-1910), and in turn father of sculptor Giulio Tadolini (1849–1918). His works were in a romantic form of the Neo-classical tradition.

Eve by Scipione Tadolini, Kibble Palace, Glasgow

Georgian Surprised at the Bath by Scipione Tadolini

Tadolini was trained in his father's studio. His first major work was Ninfa Pescatrice (Nymph Fishing) in 1846. During his career, he created a statue of Santa Lucia for the Santa Lucia del Gonfalone Church in Rome, a bust of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, an equestrian portrait of Simon Bolivar for Lima, Peru, and St Michael Overcoming Satan, commissioned by merchant Gardner Brewer and now in Boston College. His family's studio, at 150a-b Via del Babuino, Rome, has now been restored as the Museo Atelier Canova Tadolini, which preserves the works of Canova and the Tadolini family.

Selected works

Ninfa Pescatrice (Nymph Fishing), 1846
Seated Female Fishing, 1858
St Michael Overcoming Satan, Boston College, USA, 1865-9
The Greek Slave, 1871
Eve, in the Kibble Palace, Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, c. 1875
Ceres and Bacchus, 1881
Figure of an Odalesque, 1882
King Vittorio Emanuele II in the Senate, Rome.

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