About Giuseppe Franchi
Lived 1731 – 1806 (aged 74–75). Giuseppe Franchi was a sculptor.
Giuseppe Franchi (1731 – 11 February 1806) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor.
After studying Neoclassical art in Rome under Johann Joachim Winckelmann, he taught at the Brera Academy in Milan from its beginning in 1776, where he worked with the architect Giuseppe Piermarini.
Among his Milan works are decorations for the Royal Palace, for the facade of the Teatro alla Scala and for Karl Joseph von Firmian's monument in the Church of San Bartolomeo. In 1782, he sculpted the mermaids and dolphins for Piermarini's fountain at Piazza Fontana. Among his pupils was Angelo Pizzi.
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Italian sculptor (1731-1806)
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Giuseppe Franchi was born in 1731 in Carrara.
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Giuseppe Franchi died on 11 February 1806 in Milan.
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Giuseppe Franchi was a sculptor.
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