About Ivan Vitali
Lived 1794 – 1855 (aged 60–61). Ivan Vitali was a Russian sculptor and architect.
Ivan Petrovich Vitali (; 1794–1855) was a Russian sculptor of Italian descent. Born in Saint Petersburg, he was apprenticed to his father, Pietro Vitali, from an early age. After attending the Imperial Academy of Arts he moved to Moscow in 1818. His major works include a six-horse chariot for Bove's Triumphal Arch, a fountain in front of the Bolshoi Theatre, the bas-reliefs above the doors of St. Isaac's Cathedral, and an outdoor bronze statue of Emperor Paul in Gatchina.
Works Large headboard group crowning the Bauman Higher Technical School in Moscow, formerly the Trade Educationa Establishment technical training center. 1820s. No. 14 Solyanka street, designed by Giacomo Gilardi, bas reliefs, 1823-26 No. 14 Leninsky Prospekt, gateway pillars (1835), and a fountain in the forecourt that "originally stood in Dzerzhinsky Square."
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Who was Ivan Vitali?
Russian sculptor (1794–1855)
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Ivan Vitali was born in 1794 in Saint Petersburg.
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Ivan Vitali died in 1855 in Saint Petersburg.
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Ivan Vitali was a sculptor and architect.
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Ivan Vitali was Russian.
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