Gaetano Trentanove

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Gaetano Trentanove (February 21, 1858 - March 13, 1937) was an Italian and American sculptor.

Trentanove was born in Florence, Italy, a goldsmith's son. He studied at Florence and Rome, became a member of the fine arts academies of Florence (Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze) and Parma, and then opened a studio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as a result of friendships made in Paris^[1] Trentanove subsequently acquired American citizenship and although he spent a portion of every year in Florence, where the foundry that cast his models in bronze was located,^[2] he passed most of the remainder of his life in Milwaukee. In 1897 Trentanove was created a knight of the Crown of Italy. After retirement, he returned to Italy where he died.

Trentanove's public monuments are more easily located than his portrait sculptures, figual sculptures and decorative sculpture.

[edit] Selected works

• 1889 Victor Hugo, shown at the Exposition Universelle (1889), Paris.
• 1892 The Last of the Spartans, Milwaukee Museum. Purchased at the Esposizione di Belle Arti, Parma, by William Cramer and donated in 1893 to the Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee.
• 1894 Father Jacques Marquette, Wisconsin representative, Statuary Hall, United States Capitol
• 1900 Daniel Webster for the Daniel Webster Memorial, Scott Circle, Washington, D.C.
• 1901 Albert Pike for the Albert Pike Memorial, Judiciary Square, Washington, DC^[3]
• 1904 Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Kosciuszko Park, Milwaukee
• 1904 Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Cleveland Museum of Art
• 1904 Andrew Carnegie bust for Carnegie Library in Atlanta, Georgia. Now in lobby of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System's Central Library.
• Giovanni Villani for a niche of the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo, Florence.
• Soldiers' Monument, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
• Governor Nelson Dewey, Lancaster, Wisconsin
• President McKinley, Somerville, New Jersey
• Oshkosh, commemorating the treaty with the Menonimi

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[edit] References

• Omaggio a Gaetano Trentanove Exhibition, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence, December 2005
• A Commemorative History of the Oshkosh Public Library Lions