Museo medardo rosso sculpture
Medardo rosso biography.
Museo medardo rosso sculpture
Medardo Rosso
Italian sculptor
Medardo Rosso | |
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Self-Portrait in the Studio on the Boulevard des Batignolles, post 1901 | |
| Born | (1858-06-21)21 June 1858 Turin, Italy |
| Died | 31 March 1928(1928-03-31) (aged 68) Milan, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian, French (naturalized 1902) |
| Known for | Sculpture, Photography |
| Patron(s) | Henri Rouart, Etha Fles |
Medardo Rosso (Italian:[meˈdardoˈrosso]; 21 June 1858 – 31 March 1928) was an Italian sculptor.
He is considered, like his contemporary and admirer Auguste Rodin, to have been an artist working in a post-Impressionist style.
Biography and works
Rosso was born in Turin, where his father worked as a railway station inspector, and the family moved to Milan when Rosso was twelve.
At the age of 24, after a spell in the army, Rosso enrolled at the Brera Academy, from which he would soon be expelled after punching a student who refused to sign a petition that Rosso had circulated demanding that l