Nationality Italian Known for sculptor | Movement Neapolitan sculpture Name Giovanni Martino | |
Full Name Giovanni de Martino Notable work Pescatore di locuste, Bimba Pensosa, Lo Scugnizzo, Aragostaio Awards Salon (Paris) Prize (1900) Died March 3, 1935, Naples, Italy Education Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli | ||
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Giovanni de Martino (3/13 January 1870 – 3 March 1935) was an Italian sculptor. He made sentimental bronzes, often of street boys, fishermen or women.:200:405
De Martino was born in Naples on 3 or 13 January 1870,:200 and studied at the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti there,:188 under Gioacchino Toma and Stanislao Lista.:325
He spent some time in Paris, where he made small groups of figures.:405 In 1900 he won a prize at the Salon de Paris for a bronze of a fisherman.:325 After his return to Naples his work tended towards social realism.:405
He died in Naples on 3 March 1935.:405
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