Gaetano Trentanove

Gaetano Trentanove was an Italian and American sculptor.

Trentanove was born in Florence, Italy, a goldsmiths son. He studied at the Florentine Academy he was later named honorary scholar of this academy and Parma. Trentanove had an active early career in Italy. He completed Gaddo movente his first work, awarded a gold medal by the Societ Promotrice delle Belle Arti. He completed both a full size statue for his palace and a funereal monument for Count Alfredo Serristori for the cemetery of Figline. He sculpted the sculptural group Tito Vezio e Licena. he sculpted the monument of Signora Fraschetti, placing a crown of flowers on the tomb of her husband in San Miniato. He completed many portrait busts including one of Federigo Campanella. He designed a statue raised on the loggie of the Mercato Nuovo of Florence.

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