Aristodemo Costoli

Italian sculptor (1803–1871)

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Aristodemo Costoli (1803-1871) was an Italian sculptor who spent his entire career in the city of Florence. His students included Girolamo Masini, Augusto Rivalta and his son Leopoldo Costoli.

## Partial anthology of works[edit]

Pegasus at Boboli Garden, Florence

Florence

* Galileo in Tribune of Galileo, at Museo della Specola (1832);
* Christophe Colomb, at musée du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle (France);
* Pegasus, in Giardino di Boboli;
* tondo dedicated to Arnolfo di Cambio in Duomo di Firenze;
* bust of Cosimo Buonarroti and Rosina Vendramin, in Casa Buonarroti;[1]
* Monument to L. Matteucci (1845), in Badia Fiorentina;[2]
* Discovery of America, in Hall 5 of Galleria d'arte moderna (Firenze) in Palazzo Pitti;
* Monument to Galileo, niche in the ground-floor courtyard of the Uffizi Gallery (1851);[3]
* Jeremiah (Palazzo Pitti);
* Funeral Monument to Della Gherardesca (Santa Maria del Fiore a Lapo);
* Bas-relief of Villa Paolina (Sesto Fiorentino).

Other cities in Italy

* Genoa: Prudence and Columbus placing flag on Beach (1862), monument to Christopher Columbus.
* Ancona: Monument to Cavour (1868), with statue dedicated to Cavour and two bas-reliefs, at Cavour square.
* Pisa: Monument to Angelica Catalani (1859), at Camposanto.
* Lucca: Bust of Leopold II, Museo nazionale di villa Guinigi.

Other countries:

* Santiago, Chile: Monument to Pedro de Valdivia
* Saint Petersburg: Memorial to Ekaterina Arkadievna Kotchoubey and her daughter Vera
* France, La Rochelle, Musée du Nouveau Monde, La découverte de l'Amérique, marbre blanc, 78x40x26 cm[4]
* Private commissions, England.

* Galileo Galilei (Museo della Specola, Florence)

* Galileo Galilei (Museo della Specola, Florence)

* Leopold II (Museo della Specola, Florence)

* Cavour (Cavour square, Ancona)

* Congress of Paris (Cavour square, Ancona)

* Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy (Cavour square, Ancona)

* Geremia (Palazzo Pitti, Florence)

* Angelica Catalani (Camposanto, Pisa)

* Memorial Della Gherardesca (Santa Maria del Fiore a Lapo, Florence)

* Bust of Cosimo Buonarroti (Casa Buonarroti, Florence)

* Pedro de Valdivia (Santa Lucía hill, Santiago de Chile)

* Arnolfo di Cambio (Florence, cathedral)

* Galileo Galilei(galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)

* Christopher Columbus monument in Genua, (only two statues on the basement)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Guida rossa del TCI, Firenze e provincia (edition 2005), page 414
2. ^ Guida rossa del TCI, Firenze e provincia (edition 2005), page 385
3. ^ Quest'opera non risulta nella guida del TCI (edizione 2005), but cited in Aristodemo Costoli in the enciclopedia Treccani consultabile su Internet.
4. ^ "Statue - Christophe Colomb".

* Mackay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977

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