1. Gaetano Trentanove was an Italian and American sculptor.
11 Facts About Gaetano Trentanove
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Gaetano Trentanove studied at the Florentine Academy; he was later named honorary scholar of this academy and Parma.
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Gaetano Trentanove completed Gaddo movente, awarded a gold medal by the Societa Promotrice delle Belle Arti.
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Gaetano Trentanove completed both a full size statue for his palace and a funereal monument for Count Alfredo Serristori for the cemetery of Figline.
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Gaetano Trentanove sculpted the sculptural group Tito Vezio e Licena.
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Gaetano Trentanove completed many portrait busts including one of Federigo Campanella.
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Gaetano Trentanove designed a statue raised on the loggie of the Mercato Nuovo of Florence.
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Gaetano Trentanove opened a studio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as a result of friendships made in Paris.
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Gaetano Trentanove thus became a regular visitor to Milwaukee and taught classes at the Layton Art Gallery.
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Gaetano Trentanove subsequently acquired American citizenship and although he spent a portion of every year in Florence, where the foundry that cast his models in bronze was located, he passed most of the remainder of his life in Milwaukee.
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In 1897 Gaetano Trentanove was created a knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy.