Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Giosuè Argenti (Viggiù, Province of Como, February 7, 1819 – November 29, 1901) was an Italian sculptor.He trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Milan, where he worked along with Abbondio Sangiorgio, Francesco Somai, Benedetto Cacciatori, and the painter Luigi Sabatelli. His most influential teacher at the Academy was Pompeo Marchesi. After six years of study in Rome, winning stipends to pay for his stay, her returned to the Academy in Milan.Among his works are: group of five figures representing La Salute for Villa Mylius at Loveno on Lago di Como; an aedicule with statue representing Charity conducting an orphan at Cimitero Maggiore of Milan; monument with statue representing Beneficence accompanying a blind child bringing a crown, also at the cemetery, dedicated to a benefactor of the Institute for the Blind in Milan; La Religione, a large statue in an aedicule for Keller; and finally a statue and medallion of La Mestizia at the same cemetery. He also sculpted the Bishop Novasconi statue in the Duomo of Cremona; La Martire; and the Song of Innocence (Sonno dell'Innocenza); A Bather; Eve after her Sin; La Rosa degli Amori; and Perseus freeing Andromeda (1884). Several of his works have won prizes at the Esposizione Nazionale of Florence, the Esposizione Internazionale of Paris, the Esposizione Internazionale of Munich (including silver medal for his Sonno dell' Innocenza, which had won gold prize at Paris), and also in Vienna, Philadelphia, and Santiago de Chile.In 1867 he was knighted into the legion d'Onore of France. He was also entered into the Order of the Crown of Italy, and honorary associate of the Academies of Fine Arts of Milan, Urbino and Naples.. }
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- Giosuè_Argenti abstract "Giosuè Argenti (Viggiù, Province of Como, February 7, 1819 – November 29, 1901) was an Italian sculptor.He trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Milan, where he worked along with Abbondio Sangiorgio, Francesco Somai, Benedetto Cacciatori, and the painter Luigi Sabatelli. His most influential teacher at the Academy was Pompeo Marchesi. After six years of study in Rome, winning stipends to pay for his stay, her returned to the Academy in Milan.Among his works are: group of five figures representing La Salute for Villa Mylius at Loveno on Lago di Como; an aedicule with statue representing Charity conducting an orphan at Cimitero Maggiore of Milan; monument with statue representing Beneficence accompanying a blind child bringing a crown, also at the cemetery, dedicated to a benefactor of the Institute for the Blind in Milan; La Religione, a large statue in an aedicule for Keller; and finally a statue and medallion of La Mestizia at the same cemetery. He also sculpted the Bishop Novasconi statue in the Duomo of Cremona; La Martire; and the Song of Innocence (Sonno dell'Innocenza); A Bather; Eve after her Sin; La Rosa degli Amori; and Perseus freeing Andromeda (1884). Several of his works have won prizes at the Esposizione Nazionale of Florence, the Esposizione Internazionale of Paris, the Esposizione Internazionale of Munich (including silver medal for his Sonno dell' Innocenza, which had won gold prize at Paris), and also in Vienna, Philadelphia, and Santiago de Chile.In 1867 he was knighted into the legion d'Onore of France. He was also entered into the Order of the Crown of Italy, and honorary associate of the Academies of Fine Arts of Milan, Urbino and Naples.".