Giovanni Ferrari (sculptor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian artist (1744-1826)
Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1744
Place of Birth: Crespano del Grappa, Veneto, Italy
Date of Death: 02-Nov-1826
Profession: sculptor
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Giovanni Ferrari (sculptor)
- Giovanni Ferrari detto Torretto (5 June 1744, in Crespano del Grappa – 2 November 1826, in Venice) was an Italian sculptor. Giovanni's father, Gaetano, was a stonemason by trade.
- His mother was Domenica Tedesca.
- He is the last of well-known artist from the Torretti dynasty of sculptors, which including his great-uncle Giuseppe Torretto and Uncle Giuseppe Bernardi.
- In 1755 he moved to Venice to joint the studio of the latter, and at Bernardi's death in 1773, he inherited his studio.
- Ferrari was concerned initially to complete some works of his predecessor, helped, among others, by Antonio Canova, who had been working in the shop since 1744.
- But by 1777, Ferrari closed the studio, and moved to Mantua, then to Modena, then to Bologna.
- From 1779 he was in Rome where he worked at the studio of Lorenzo Cardelli, and later under Francesco Antonio Franzoni.
- He then returned to Venice, where he worked till 1796 on 22 of the statues of Prato della Valle in Padua .
- For the La Fenice theater (opened in 1792), Ferrari made two statues (Melpomene and Terpsichore) for the facade and helped Giovanni Antonio Moschini complete the bas-reliefs of the interior (only two after the fire of 1837).
- Shortly afterwards built the monument to Angelo Emo (now preserved in the church of San Biagio), which many consider his masterpiece.
- In 1804 he was appointed deputy to the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.
- Late in his career, he began working for the family Savorgnan (Count Giulio was called "my patron" by the sculptor).
- Afterwards, the relationship became strained due to missed payments that led Ferrari to go to court.
- The son Gaetano (died 1847) also became a sculptor; he trained with Rinaldo Rinaldi and worked with Canova.
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