Bronze figure of "Sapho"
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4,900 EUR
Artist/Maker: Emmanuel Villanis
Artist/Maker Dates: 1858 - 1914
Place of Production: France
Date of Production: beg. of 20th century
Materials: bronze, patina
Height: 70.0 cm.
Condition:
Description
Sappho was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later
Greeks included her in the list of nine lyrics poets. Her birth was
sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570
BC, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her
poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity,
has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving
fragments.
Sculptor Emmanuel Villanis was born in Lille,
December 12, 1858 of Italian parents. After the proclamation of the
Kingdom of Italy, in March 1861, the Villanis returned to their country
and settled in Piedmont. From 1871 to 1880, Emmanuel Villanis was a
student at the Academy of Fine Arts Albertina in Turin where he studied
with master sculptor Odoardo Tabacchi (1831-1905). Upon his graduation,
he exhibited his first works in several cities in Italy. For example,
the bust Alda, in Milan in 1881. In 1885, Emmanuel Villanis finally
returned to France to live and work in Montmartre, a district of Paris
which he did not leave until his death on August 28, 1914. In the
nineteenth century, exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes French was
vital for a sculptor in terms of getting known and gaining commissions.
Between 1886 and 1910, Villanis participated eleven times at the Salon.
His seventeen sculptures exhibited include the four busts Nerina (Salon
of 1887); Galatee (Salon of 1894); Mignon (Salon of 1896); Judith (Salon
of 1898) In 1892, he received an Honorable Mention for the two plaster
statues he presented: Mlle Bob Walter Dans Son Repertoire et Madeleine
Au Passage Du Christ. Villanis had already received the same award in
1889, the Universal Exhibition in Paris for the statue The Souriciere.
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