Artist name Bazzanti, Niccolò
Thieme-Becker name: Bazzanti, Niccolò
Other name: Bazzanti, Nicola; Bazzanti, Nicholas
Cited Artist: Bazzanti, Pietro ( Son )
Artist occupation: sculptor
Geographical data: Italien / Italy
State: Italien / Italy
Date of birth: 1802
Place of birth: Florence
Last cited: 1849
Place(s) cited: Florence; Henbury (England)
Book location: AKL VIII, 1994, 27 s

Bazzanti, Niccolò (Nicholas), ital. Sculptor, 1802 Florence, there until 1849 Studied: Academy of the Beaux Arts in Florence with Lorenzo Bartolini. Under the time frame Bazzanti obtained much attention with sculptures such as Diana che si bagna, Inverno (Allegory figures for the Florentine typographer Batelli, in 1838) and with the statue Andrea Orcagna for the loggias of the Uffizi. In Santo Spirito he worked the Epitaph of the Amalia Bazzanti (1850). Also Pietro Bazzanti probably worked together with the sculptor Giuseppe Moisè (which operated 1822-1925) an in existing workshop within the Palazzo Corsini. Bazzanti dedicated himself to the creation of monuments and tomb sculptures with figures and angels, which approached the purist tastes to within classical tradition. In Great Britain there are numerous well-preserved signed example. Grave sculpture occupies and formed a majority of commissions from customers. These works are noted in he Handbooks of Murray across Florence for English clientele.

WORKS

Niccolò Bazzanti: FLORENZ, Loggiato degli Uffizi: Andrea Orcagna, 1837-43. HENBURY, St. Mary: Grabmal Isabella Cave, 1827. SOUTHAMPTON, Jesus Church Peartree Green: Grabmal Captain Lewis Sludden, 1845. SOUTH STONEHAM, St.Mary: Grabmal Mary Jones, 1829. – Pietro Bazzanti: FLORENZ, Cimitero delle Porte Sante: Mon. für Giovanni Federico Rudzki, 1874. GLANFORD, St. Martin: Grabmal der Mutter von Sir Alfred Jodrell of Bayfield Hall. HOLME PIERREPONT: Mon. für Lady Sophia Pierrepont, 1823. LEWKNOR, St. Margareth: Grab Richard Paul Jodrell, 1833. LIVERPOOL, Walker Art Gallery: Il giovane Linneo.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Thieme-Becker III, 1909. Gunnis, 1953; A. Panzetta, Dizionario degli scultori Italiani dell’800, thr 1990. – M. Missirini, Di 28 statue in marmo consacrate ad altrettanti uomini illustri toscani, Fi. 1838; Giornali del Commercio 6:1843(27, v. 5.Juli) 106; P. Selvatico, Dell’arte mod. a Firenze, Mi. 1843; G.E.Saltini, Le arti belle in Toscana, Fi. 1862; A. Borzelli, Prime linee di una storia della scultori Italianni nel secolo XIX, N. 1912; Paatz, Kirchen V, 1954, 149; BE, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 1973; BE, North-East Norfolk and Norwich, 1973; BE, North Summerset and Bristol, 1973; BE, Oxfordshire, 1974; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Supplement foreign catalog Liverpool 1984 (zu Pietro B.).