Ezio Ceccarelli (1865-1937)
Portrait of a girl
Marble, cm height 26 x 44 x 18
The work depicting the bust of a young girl covered by a rich hooded cloak that wraps around her shoulders is by the Tuscan sculptor Ezio Ceccarelli. He was born in Montecatini in Val di Cecina on July 27, 1865, to a family of humble origins. His father, who had moved to Florence, first placed him in the studio of the lawyer Oreste Ciampi, who, seeing in the boy a greater inclination for drawing and art than for quotations and legal documents, placed him in the studio of the sculptor Ulisse Cambi, where Ceccarelli stayed for a year, then enrolling in the Academy of Fine Arts, meeting Professor Augusto Rivalta. At 18, he exhibited for the first time at the halls of the Florentine Promotrice a bust entitled: "After the reprimand," which was purchased by Mr. Soria of Livorno; then he modeled for the Lapini family two figurines entitled: "The Choice of a Flower" and "Complacency," which are currently in London. He then made a figure, entitled "Hours of Leisure," with a slender and elegant line, representing a little girl who, after working with the spinning wheel, has taken the distaff on her shoulders and has let the spindle fall, with which a kitten is playing, while she smiles. This pleased many artists and brought him commissions and praise. At the Promotrice of 1891, he exhibited a bust entitled: "Without Work," which was judged by Rivalta and the local press to be a very fine work in terms of form and sentiment. He then modeled a small figure for the Fanfani and Natali families, who sold it to Mr. Antonio Frilli, and then took part in the competition for the artistic pension in Rome announced by the Ministry of Public Education.
He exhibited his works in numerous European capitals, from St. Petersburg to Munich, Brussels, Liège, London, Dublin, Barcelona, ??Paris. He was also present, with his works, at four editions of the Venice Biennale. During his Parisian frequentations, he had the opportunity to meet the now famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin and to appreciate his artistic conception, of which he was a staunch supporter.
Many of his sculptures are noteworthy: the Garibaldi monument in the square of the same name in Massa; the Cavour monument in the Paduan town of Este; the monument to the South American patriot José Gervasio Artigas in the Uruguayan city of Paysandú; the Christopher Columbus monument in La Plata in Argentina; a bust of Giosuè Carducci in San Miniato al Tedesco; the «Angel of Death» kept in the Gallery of Palazzo Pitti; a famous «Ecce Homo» that was so successful that it prompted the author to entrust the serial reproduction to the Ghiozzi Factory in Florence. Important creations of his are also present in museums and private collections; the collection of the heirs of the merchant Luigi Martini, a fervent admirer of the art of Ezio Ceccarelli, of whom he was for years the most loyal client, is particularly rich in his works, and who, after his death, took over all the production that remained in his renowned Florentine workshop.
In December 2004, the exhibition «Two Sculptors and a Monument» dedicated to the restoration, by the students of the local Art Institute «Felice Palma», of the monument to Garibaldi modeled by Ezio Ceccarelli and executed in 1906 by Fernando Tombesi in the famous Cuturi laboratory in Massa, ??was held at the Palazzo Ducale in Massa.
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