Nationality Italian Notable work Saffo | Known for sculpture | |
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Full Name Adelaide Pandiani Born 30 June 1835 ( 1835-06-30 ) Milan, Italy Died 24 March 1917, Rome, Italy | ||
Adelaide Pandiani Maraini (30 June 1836 in Milan – 24 March 1917 in Rome) was a Swiss-Italian sculptor.
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Life
Adelaide Pandiani was born into a family of sculptors: her father John, her uncles Innocent and Augustine, and her cousin Constantine were all sculptors, and Adelaide began to learn the art from her father, then followed the courses of the Florence Academy of Fine Arts conducted by Giovanni Dupré.
In 1862, she married the wealthy industrialist and financier Clemente Maraini of Lugano; they had two sons, Clement, in 1864, and Adelaide, in 1868. She moved with her family to Rome – where she became acquainted with the writer Carlo Dossi, a longtime friend of the family Pandiani, and often stayed in her husband's villa in Lugano, a city in which citizenship was gained in 1862, and where several of her works are preserved.
She exhibited at the 1867 Universal Exposition in Paris and in the 1878 Exposition Universelle where she presented what remains her masterpiece, the Sappho sculpture, now in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. She also exhibited at the Brera Academy in 1881 and in 1891, in Lugano in 1891 and, for the last time, in 1913.