Ettore Ferrari

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Ettore Ferrari (Rome, 1848 - 1929) was an Italian sculptor.

Born to an artistic family (his father was also a painter), Ferrari was one of the members of the artistic rebirth in the secular state born after the Italian Unification. For a long time, he was a professor at the Accademia di San Luca, a deputy in the Italian Parliament and Grand Master of the Grande Oriente d'Italia,.^[1] the main Masonic body in Italy.

In 1887, he created a statue of Ovid for the city of Constanţa, Romania (the ancient Tomis, where the poet was exiled) and this statue has been duplicated in 1925 for Sulmona, Ovid's birthplace. Another important work is the bronze statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, created in 1892, located in Pisa in the square with the same name.

[edit] Works by Ettore Ferrari

statue of Giordano Bruno at Campo de' Fiori (Rome, 1888)

Bas-relief of the pedestal: Giordano Bruno in front of the Inquisition

state of Mazzini on the Aventine Hill (Rome, 1909)

Statue of Ovid at Sulmona

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