Antonio Berti

Antonio Berti (24 August 1904 – 1990) was an Italian sculptor and medalist. He taught at the Accademia di San Luca and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.

Career Berti was born into a family of farmers and shepherds in San Piero a Sieve, Italy. He showed an interest in art at an early age and at age seventeen he found work at Richard-Ginori where he could devote himself to the design of porcelain products. The writer Ugo Ojetti, had the opportunity to see some of Berti's works in clay, and advised his father Angiolo to enroll him at the Santa Croce Institute of Art in Florence. From this began Berti's artistic career, and his first participation in the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadriennale. and Susanna Agnelli. His portraits of the writer and designer and Amadeo of Aosta are also of considerable artistic value.

Berti designed the bronze casket used to house the wooden coffin of Pope Pius XI.

Monuments After the Second World War, Berti was commissioned to create monuments to many famous people, including to Alcide De Gasperi in Trento (working with ). He also spent time as the official sculptor of the Holy See.

In May 2014, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Carabinieri, the 1973 Berti work Carabinieri patrol in the storm was recast and placed in Rome in the garden of Church of Saint Andrew's at the Quirinal.

Teaching Berti taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, where he mentored other sculptors. Among his students were American sculptor Frank Varga.

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