Antonio Giovanni Lanzirotti - Sculpture, Arianna e Satiro - 24 cm - Earthenware

Antonio Giovanni Lanzirotti (Naples, May 9, 1830 – 1921)
The Slave, Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Nice
Biography
He studied in Palermo until 1848, when he joined the Sicilian revolution of 1848, serving under General Ignazio Ribotti. After the insurrection failed, he was imprisoned at Castel Sant'Elmo in Naples, where during captivity he was first sentenced to death and subsequently pardoned. He was exiled from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and went to Turin, where for a year he served as a grenadier[1].
Subsequently, he moved to Paris to work under Joseph Michel Ange Pollet. His first work was The Education of Bacchus, exhibited at the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle.
In 1860 he joined the Garibaldian movement, was captured at Capo d’Orso, imprisoned for two months at Gaeta, then returned to Paris. There he completed: Amore Punito (Punished Love), The Dance, the Mausoleum of Count Tyzhieviez, A Bather, which he exhibited at the Salon, Pleasure, Madness and many busts and portraits, including those of Cassagnac, M. Girardin, Doctor Armand Trousseau, the writer Pierre Beaumarchais, and King Umberto I.
In 1863 he returned to Turin, where King Vittorio Emanuele II commissioned the statues of Count Verde and Duke Vittorio Amedeo I. Other works included the statues The Thoughtful One, found in London, and The Slave, sold to the Nice museum.
Lanzirotti was a member of many academies, he was awarded the Cross of the Knights of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, the Order of the Crown of Italy, and the Order of Isabella the Catholic.
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