Alessandro_Nelli

Alessandro Nelli

Alessandro Nelli

Italian entrepreneur

Alessandro Nelli (Rome, 28 January 1842 – Russia?, after 1897) was an Italian entrepreneur. Nelli was the founder of the Fonderia Nelli (Nelli Foundry), which was the leading sculpture foundry in Rome from 1880 to 1900. He participated to national, international and universal exhibitions, winning several prizes and medals. He exported more than 100 pieces to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.[citation needed] Nelli made artistic bronzes for several Italian and foreign artists, including several American artists. [citation needed]

Works

References

  1. [1]
    Genovese, Anna Lisa (2015). La tomba del divino Raffaello (in Italian). Gangemi Editore. ISBN 978-88-492-9512-2.
  2. [2]
    Teresa Sacchi Lodispoto, Sabrina Spinazzè: Ernesto Biondi: la scultura viva
  3. [3]
    Archivio della scultura. Vittorio Emanuele II, Giulio Tadolini

Additional sources

  • Angelo de Gubernatis, Dizionario di artisti italiani viventi, Firenze, 1906, p. 235.
  • Thieme-Becker, Allgemeinesküntlerlexikon, p. 25, p. 385
  • E. Colle, A. Griseri, R. Valeriani, Bronzi decorativi in Italia: bronzisti e fonditori italiani dal Seicento all'Ottocento, Milano, Electa, 2001, pp. 42, 320-323, 386
  • P. Coen, Il recupero del Rinascimento. Arte, politica e mercato nei primi anni di Roma capitale (1870-1911), Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2020, pp. 177–187 ISBN 9788836645435
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