Giacomo_Merculiano

Giacomo Merculiano

Giacomo Merculiano

Italian sculptor

Giacomo Merculiano (Naples, September 29, 1859 - November 1935) was an Italian sculptor, medallist, and illustrator.

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He studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples, where he first gained recognition for a stucco statue titled Aspiration, exhibited at the Promotrice of Naples. In 1889 at the same Exhibition, he displayed a bronze statuette titled Canto fermo. He completed the bronze bust for the funereal monument of Count Giulio di Conversano in Camposanto di Naples.[1]

While Merculiano also dabbled in painting, sculpture was his main output. By 1900, he was living in Paris, France, and would sign his works Jacques Merculiano or J. Merculiano.[2] He focused mainly on depictions of animals. He exhibited from 1914 on in the Salon in Paris.[3]

  • French Kennel Club Prize Medal Art Nouveau by Merculiano
  • Lion and Lioness
  • Actiniaria by Merculiano, 1893, in Richard Lydekker's The Royal Natural History

References

  1. [1]
    Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 296.
  2. [2]
    Rivista d'Italia, Volume 3, page 379
  3. [3]
    Art Deco and Other Figures, by Brian Catley, 2003, page 39.


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