Achille Salata was a 19th-century Italian sculptor.
He was born in Mirandola and lived in Milan. In 1880, he exhibited at the fourth National Exposition of Fine Arts in Turin: La pesca galante (bronze), Young Shakespeare (marble), and Portrait of the Mother (marble). The latter was also exhibited the next year at the Exposition of Milan. In the 1883 Milan exposition, he exhibited three bronzes: The indiscretion,[1] Lo spavaldo, and The sweetness; and two terra cotta La Massaia and La questua. He also exhibited in the 1883 Rome Exposition of Fine Arts, the statues La Merveilleuse and Lo spavento. Lo spavaldo and L' indiscrezione, bronze statuettes were exhibited in Milan, in 1884. In 1886 in Livorno, he exhibited a bronze statuette titled Acqua di Seltz; and in the next year to the National Artistic Exposition of Venice, he sent a bronze statuette titled L'orgoglio and Vezzosetta.[2] In 1877, he exhibited a Genio di Napoleone at the Brera exposition.[3] He is represented at the Modern Art Gallery of Milan by an 1884 bronze Guardaportone (Gatekeeper)[4] He completed a funereal Monument to Wilhelmo Braghirolli, Abbot in Mirandola (1884).[5]
References
edit- ^ L'indiscrezione Archived 2014-08-19 at the Wayback Machine by Salata, exposed at Turin, Review of exhibition.
- ^ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. . Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 444.
- ^ Il Raffaello Volumes 7,10, Acts of the Royal Academy of Raphael, Anno IX, 21, October 1877, pages 108.
- ^ GAM Milan Archived August 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Achille Salata work.
- ^ Biografie mirandolesi, Volume 1, by Felice Ceretti, page 96.
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