Ulisse Cambi

Ulisse Cambi (22 September 1807 – 7 April 1895) was an Italian sculptor active in Tuscany during the 19th century.

Biography and artworks Son of the sculptor Pietro Cambi, he was born in Florence where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and in 1833, after winning a four-year stipendium, continued his training in Rome. While there he completed several works in gesso, including a Daphnis and Chloe (1834; Florence, Palazzo Pitti; marble version, 1841) executed in an academic classical style.

He returned to Florence about 1837 and for a time struggled to gain recognition, but by 1841, after having been nominated to, and given a professorship in the Accademia, he began to obtain numerous important commissions. He gained esteem for his funerary monuments, among them one to the painter Luigi Sabatelli (1844; Santa Croce, Florence) that is noted for its unsparingly realistic depiction of the dying man’s wasted body. His best known students included Giovanni Dupré from Siena and Giorgio Ceragioli, who was mainly active in Piemonte.

Selected works