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Rinaldo Carnielo (1853 - 1910) was an Italian sculptor, known for his macabre sensibility. ==Biography== He was born in Biadene, in the Province of Treviso, to a family of modest means. He briefly enrolled in Padua in a technical institute, but abandoned this for the institute of design started by Pietro Selvatico. From there, he moved to study sculpture for a year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence under Aristodemo Costoli, and then served a further year of study. He opened a studio, but deprived of many commissions, he was indigent. Encouraged by the older Giovanni Duprè, he obtained a studio at the Academy, and there composed his ''Dying Mozart''.〔Marble statue in Galleria Rinaldo Carnielo of Florence.〕 The statue was sent to a Paris Exposition of 1878, where it was generally well received.〔(Enciclopedia Treccani ), Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 20 (1977), entry by Francesco Negri Arnoldi.〕 Local critiques were less fond, including Duprè who labeled it a ''puny beast''〔''Bestiolina'' according to Angelo De Gubernatis and Ugo Matini, (Dizionario degli artisti italiani viventi, pittori, scultori e architetti ), (1889) page 101-102.〕 and Augusto Rivalta who described it as ''someone dead two months who is falling apart''〔''un morto di due mesi che casca a pezzi'' cited in Gubernatis, page 101-102.〕 This deprecation was not universal, and a commission granting prizes from the Italian government, including Domenico Morelli, Roberto Bompiani, Emilio De Fabris, and Odoardo Tabacchi, found high merit to the work. The contrarian Morelli specially praised the work.〔Gubernatis, page 101-102.〕 This success led to many private commissions and financial success. Among his major works, ''Tenax Vitae'', a struggle between skeletal death and a young man,〔Original marble statue at Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts.〕 or ''A capuchin imploring death as a boon from God'' (''Dio non posso pregare''). Some works have organic chimeric figures. He continued to make large and small works in bronze. He became Professore corrispondente dell'Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, and died in that city.〔Treccani encyclopedia entry.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rinaldo Carnielo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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