Ernesto Bazzaro (Milan, 1859 - 1937)
Caravan
Bronze, 54 x 60 x 20 cm
Signature at the base
The work, with strong naturalistic connotations and depicting a woman with a child seated on the back of a dromedary, probably part of a caravan, is by the artist Ernesto Bazzaro (Milan, 1859 – 1937). The image, of immense humanity and tenderness, is rendered by the artist in every minimal detail: the drapery is artistically notable, as is the expressiveness conveyed to the faces.
Bazzaro was born in Milan in 1859. In 1875, he enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he attended ornamental courses and met Leonardo Bistolfi and Gaetano Previati. In 1881, he won the Luigi Canonica competition with his sculpture Sordello da Goito, a work that still bore a romantic taste. During these years, he came into contact with the Milanese Scapigliatura movement, a relationship that would prove fundamental to 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 master of Paolo Troubetzkoy.
His works include the marble original of the statue of Garibaldi in Monza and the monument to Felice Cavallotti in Milan, which depicts Leonidas I, the hero of the Battle of Thermopylae to whom Cavallotti had dedicated his work La marcia di Leonida. Many of his other works were created for funerary monuments at the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan and in Pallanza. Among his pupils, we remember Costante Coter. The story of his two female figures sculpted for the facade of Palazzo Castiglioni in Milan is curious: deemed too provocative by the public, they had to be removed and installed in another building. He died in Milan in 1937. His most significant work remains, arguably, the monument to Felice Cavallotti, created between 1901 and 1906. From 1905 to 1908, he was a member of the Milan Municipal Council. In 1913, he exhibited Beduina 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). His self-portraits, in particular, are characterized by intense psychological rendering, a factor that is among the most interesting aspects of Bazzaro's production and is also reflected in the serious and absorbed expression of the musician depicted here.
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