Giannino Castiglioni (4 May 1884 – 27 August 1971) was an Italian sculptor and medallist. He worked mostly in monumental and funerary sculpture; his style was representational, and far from the modernist and avant-garde trends of the early twentieth century.[1]

Giannino Castiglioni
In his workshop, circa 1925, working on the sculptures for the Palacio Legislativo of Montevideo, Uruguay
Born	(1884-05-04)4 May 1884 Milan, Italy
Died	27 August 1971(1971-08-27) (aged 87) Lierna, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Education	Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
Known for	sculpture, medals
Movement	Art Nouveau

Life

Giannino Castiglioni was born on 4 May 1884 in Milan, the son of Giacomo Castiglioni and Piera Bergamaschi. His father was director of the Stefano Johnson mint in that city.[2][3]

Castiglioni studied sculpture under Enrico Butti at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. He first exhibited at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906, where he showed medals, a plaster statue and a painting.[2] He married Livia Bolla, with whom he had four^{[citation needed]} children: Livio [it] (b. 1911), Pier Giacomo (b. 1913) and Achille (b. 1918). He opened a large studio on the Corso di Porta Nuova.[1] A daughter named Piera died in her infancy and is memorialised with a funerary sculpture by her father.[4]

In 1927 Castiglioni opened a second studio at his house in Lierna, on Lake Como. He died in Lierna on 27 August 1971.[2]

Work

From 1922 until 1928 Castiglioni worked on the plaster casts for friezes and monumental sculptures for the Palacio Legislativo of Montevideo, Uruguay; these were shipped to Uruguay, and the bronze or marble sculptures were made there. In the Fascist era he worked on sculptures for war cemeteries and monuments to the dead of the First World War, including: the military memorial of Monte Grappa (1935) in the Veneto; the Tempio Ossario di Timau [it] (1937) in the comune of Paluzza, Udine; the military ossuary of Caporetto, now Kobarid, Slovenia; and the war memorial of Redipuglia (1938) in the province of Gorizia.[2] In 1941 he made the tomb of Pope Pius XI in the Vatican Grottoes.[5]

Reception

Castiglioni won the competition for the prize medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906. In 1922 he won the international competition to provide sculptures for the Palacio Legislativo of Montevideo.[2] He left more than three hundred of his preparatory plaster casts to the comune of Lierna; a museum is to house them is under construction.[6]

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  El trabajo, bronze, Palacio Legislativo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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  Tomb of Pius XI, St. Peter's, Rome
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  Tomb of Antonio Bernocchi, Cimitero Monumentale di Milano

References

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