GUGIELMO PUGI (Fiesole, Italy, c. 1850 - ¿, 1915). "Female bust". Marble. Signed.
GUGIELMO PUGI (Fiesole, Italy, c. 1850 - ¿, 1915).
"Female bust.
Marble.
Signed.
Size: 40 x 42 x 20 cm.
In this sculpture Gugielmo Pugi shows a young woman with an ideal face, with symmetrical and idealised features, with clear classical roots. Her expression of serene beauty is linked to classical antiquity, offering us an image of restrained expressiveness.
Pugi developed his career in Florence between 1870 and 1915, the year of his death. He became famous for the bust of King Umberto I that he painted for the square dedicated to him in Fiesole, the artist's birthplace. In addition to bust portraits and classicist representations of the same genre, Pugi produced figures of oriental women and mythological and allegorical subjects. He also produced copies of antique statuary for foreigners visiting Italy on the Grand Tour, which were marketed internationally by the Galleria Bazzanti, with whom Cesare Lapini and Ferdinando Vichi also worked. He also took part in various exhibitions. He developed a language that reveals a certain influence of neoclassicism, although he was less rigorous and more graceful and sensual, very much in line with fin-de-siècle art. As his prestige grew, Pugi expanded his workshop with the help of his sons and his business became known as Guglielmo Pugi e Figli. His production was extensive, both in Carrara marble and in other cheaper materials such as alabaster and terracotta. Today Guglielmo Pugi is represented in the Museum of Volterra, among others.
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GUGIELMO PUGI (Fiesole, Italy, c. 1850 - ¿, 1915).
"Female bust.
Marble.
Signed.
Size: 40 x 42 x 20 cm.
In this sculpture Gugielmo Pugi shows a young woman with an ideal face, with symmetrical and idealised features, with clear classical roots. Her expression of serene beauty is linked to classical antiquity, offering us an image of restrained expressiveness.
Pugi developed his career in Florence between 1870 and 1915, the year of his death. He became famous for the bust of King Umberto I that he painted for the square dedicated to him in Fiesole, the artist's birthplace. In addition to bust portraits and classicist representations of the same genre, Pugi produced figures of oriental women and mythological and allegorical subjects. He also produced copies of antique statuary for foreigners visiting Italy on the Grand Tour, which were marketed internationally by the Galleria Bazzanti, with whom Cesare Lapini and Ferdinando Vichi also worked. He also took part in various exhibitions. He developed a language that reveals a certain influence of neoclassicism, although he was less rigorous and more graceful and sensual, very much in line with fin-de-siècle art. As his prestige grew, Pugi expanded his workshop with the help of his sons and his business became known as Guglielmo Pugi e Figli. His production was extensive, both in Carrara marble and in other cheaper materials such as alabaster and terracotta. Today Guglielmo Pugi is represented in the Museum of Volterra, among others.
