Ernesto Bazzaro (Milan, 1859 - 1937)
Caravan
Bronze, 54 x 60 x 20 cm
Signed at the base
The work, with a strong naturalistic connotation and depicting a woman with a child sitting on the back of a dromedary, probably part of a caravan, is by the artist Ernesto Bazzaro (Milan, 1859 – 1937). The image, of great humanity and sweetness, is rendered by the artist in every detail: the rendering of the drapery is of remarkable artistic quality, as is the expressiveness given to the faces.
Bazzaro was born in Milan in 1859. In 1875 he enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he attended courses in ornamentation, and where he met Leonardo Bistolfi and Gaetano Previati. In 1881 he won the Luigi Canonica competition by presenting the sculpture Sordello da Goito, a work still in the romantic style. In these years he came into contact with the Milanese Scapigliatura movement, a relationship that would be fundamental for his training; he followed the activities of the Famiglia Artistica and the Società Permanente.
Younger brother of the painter Leonardo, he attended the courses of Antonio Borghi and Giuseppe Grandi at the Brera Academy, dedicating himself to sculpture. He was one of the most important Lombard sculptors of the late 19th century, with a technique close to Impressionism; he was the teacher of Paolo Troubetzkoy.
His works include the original marble statue of Garibaldi in Monza and the monument to Felice Cavallotti in Milan, in which Leonida I is represented, the hero of the Battle of Thermopylae to whom Cavallotti had dedicated his work La marcia di Leonida [The March of Leonidas]. Many of his other works were created for funerary monuments at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan and in that of Pallanza. Among his students we remember Costante Coter. The story of his two female figures sculpted for the façade of Palazzo Castiglioni in Milan is curious: deemed excessively provocative by the population, it was necessary to remove them and install them in another building. He died in Milan in 1937. The most important work remains, in all likelihood, the monument to Felice Cavallotti, created between 1901 and 1906. From 1905 to 1908 he was a member of the Milan City Council. In 1913 he exhibited Beduina [Bedouin Woman] and Autoritratto sorridente [Smiling Self-Portrait] at the International Exhibition in Rome. In 1917 he held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Centrale d'Arte in Milan, where he presented - among other works - the bronze Autoritratto serio [Serious Self-Portrait]. The self-portraits are characterized by an intense psychological rendering, one of the most interesting factors in Bazzaro's production that is nevertheless also reflected in the serious and absorbed expression of the musician portrayed here.
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