Lio Gangeri Explained

Lio Gangeri
Birth Name:Letterio Gangeri
Birth Date:6 January 1845
Birth Place:Messina, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Nationality:Italian
Field:sculptor
Death Place:Salerno, Sicily, Italy

Lio Gangeri (Messina, June 1, 1845 – Salerno, February 5, 1913) was an Italian sculptor.[1]

Life

First student of the painter Michele Panebianco from 1867 he moved to Rome where he studied under Giulio Monteverde. Later he worked in Italy but above all between Rome and in Messina.

Gangeri was the Professor and President of import Italian art academies like the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara and of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. Among his students he remembers Arturo Dazzi.

He died in Salerno on February 5, 1913[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/espace-professionnels/professionnels/chercheurs/rech-rec-art-home/notice-artiste.html?nnumid=13101 Gangeri, Letterio
  2. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/letterio-gangeri_(Dizionario-Biografico/ Gangeri, Letterio