Editing Ettore Ximenes

{{Short description|Italian sculptor (1855–1926)}}{{Infobox artist
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| birth_date       = 11 April 1855
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1926|12|20|1855|4|11|df=yes}}
| birth_place      = [[Palermo]], [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]]
| death_place      = [[Rome]], [[Italy]]
| image            = Ettore Ximenes.jpg
| education        = [[Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo|Palermo Academy of Fine Arts]]
| known_for        = Sculpting
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'''Ettore Ximenes''' (11 April 1855 {{ndash}} 20 December 1926) was an Italian sculptor.

== Biography==
Ettore Ximenes was born 11 April 1855 in [[Palermo|Palermo, Italy]]. Son of Antonio Ximenes and Giulia Tolentino, a Sicilian noble woman, Ettore Ximenes initially embarked on literary studies but then took up sculpture and attended the courses at the [[Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo|Palermo Academy of Fine Arts]]. After 1872, he continued training at the Naples Academy under [[Domenico Morelli]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz0bAAAAYAAJ ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''], by [[Angelo de Gubernatis]]. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 556.</ref> and [[Stanislao Lista]]. He also established a close relationship with [[Vincenzo Gemito]].
[[File:Ettore Ximenes sculpture of Caruso.jpg|thumb|250px|Ettore Ximenes with a sculpture model of opera singer [[Enrico Caruso]].]]He returned to [[Palermo]] in 1874 and won a competition for a four-year grant, which enabled him to study and open a studio for sculpture in [[Florence, Italy|Florence]]. In 1873 at Vienna, he exhibited ''Work without Genius''. In 1877 at Naples, he exhibited a life-size statue titled ''The Equilibrium'' about a gymnast walking on a sphere. He would make copies of this work in small marble and bronze statuettes.

He exhibited a stucco ''Christ and the Adultress'' and ''Il cuore del re (Heart of the King)'', the latter depicting an oft-repeated story of King Vittorio Emanuele during one of his frequent hunts, encountering and offering charity to a peasant child. At the 1878 Paris World Exposition he displayed: ''The Brawl'' and ''il Marmiton''.<ref>Gubernatis, page 555.</ref> In [[Paris]],  he met with [[Auguste Rodin]] and [[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]].

In 1878, he also completed a life-size stucco of ''il Ciceruacchio'', a statue of the Italian patriot [[Angelo Brunetti]] and his thirteen-year-old son, depicting them at the moment of their execution in 1849 by Austrian troops. The Cicervacchio statue, with its tinge of revolutionary zeal, did not find commissions for completing the work in marble.<ref>Gubernatis page 556</ref>[[File:EB1911 Plate X. v24, pg.511, Fig 3.jpg|thumb|upright|Sculpture of Revolution.<ref>[[Encyclopædia Britannica]], ed. 1911, vol. 24, pg. 511, Plate X.</ref>]]He then completed a nude statue of ''[[Nana (novel)|Nanà]]'' based on the novel by [[Émile Zola]]; the statue was exhibited at the 1879 Salon di Paris. The next year at the Paris Salon, he displayed ''La Pesca meravigliosa'', where a fisherman rescues a bathing maiden. Returning to Italy, he displayed the bust del minister [[Giuseppe Zanardelli]]. At the Mostra of Rome, he displayed ''The assassination of Julius Caesar''; and at the Exposition of Venice, ''Ragazzi messi in fila''.<ref>Gubernatis, page 555-556.</ref> Ximenes' realism gave way to Symbolist and Neo-Renaissance elements. In addition to sculpture, he also produced illustrations for the works of [[Edmondo De Amicis]] published by the Treves publishing house.

Ximenes was involved in many of the major official monumental projects in [[Italy]] from the 1880s on and devoted his energies as from 1911 primarily to commissions for important public works in São Paulo, Kyiv, New York and Buenos Aires.

==Works==

===In Italy===
*Bronze [[quadriga]] on [[Palace of Justice, Rome]]

===In Ukraine===
* Monument to Emperor [[Alexander II of Russia]] in [[Kyiv]] (1911)
* Monument to [[Pyotr Stolypin]] in [[Kyiv]] (1913)

<gallery>
Image:Alexander 2 Kyiv 02.jpg|[[Alexander II of Russia]], 1911
Image:Kyiv-stolypin-statue.jpg|[[Pyotr Stolypin]], 1913
</gallery>

===In the United States===
* [[Giovanni da Verrazzano]] in [[the Battery (Manhattan)|the Battery]], Manhattan, New York, 1909<ref>[http://downtownexpress.com/de_348/100year.html 100 year] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301212216/http://downtownexpress.com/de_348/100year.html |date=2012-03-01 }} at downtownexpress.com</ref>
* [[Statue of Dante Alighieri (Meridian Hill Park)|Dante Alighieri]] in [[Dante Park]] at [[Lincoln Center]], [[New York City]] and in [[Meridian Hill Park]], [[Washington D.C.]] - castings of the same work, 1921

<gallery>
File:Giovanni da Verrazzano by Ximenes, Battery Park, NYC.jpg|[[Giovanni da Verrazzano|Verrazzano Monument]], 1909
Image:Dante (Malcolm X Park).jpg|''[[Statue of Dante Alighieri (Meridian Hill Park)|Dante Alighieri]]'', [[Washington, D.C.]]'s [[Meridian Hill Park]]
File:Artgate_Fondazione_Cariplo_-_Ximenez_Ettore,_La_Repubblica_Argentina.jpg|''[[Argentina|La repubblica Argentina]]'', 1900
</gallery>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Elena Lissoni, [http://www.artgate-cariplo.it/collezione-online/page45d.do?link=oln82d.redirect&kcond31d.att3=80 Ettore Ximenes], online catalogue [https://web.archive.org/web/20120402223047/http://www.artgate-cariplo.it/Portal-museo/page38.do?sp=page38&link=ln502&stu24.LanguageISOCtxParam=en Artgate] by [[Fondazione Cariplo]], 2010, CC BY-SA (source for biography).
* Dianne Durante, ''Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide'' (New York University Press, 2007), with a discussion of the Verrazzano.
*Fried, Frederick & Edmund V. Gillon Jr., ''New York Civic Sculpture'', Dover Publications, Inc., New York,  1976
*Goode, James M., ''The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C.'', Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.  1974
*Lederer, Joseph & Arley Bondarin, ''All Around Town: A Walking Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in New York'', Charles Scribner's Sons, New York,  1975
*Mackay, James,''The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze'', Antique Collectors Club,  Woodbridge, Suffolk  1977

==External links==
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* [http://www.artnet.com/library/09/0925/T092556.asp Artnet.com biography: Ettore Ximenes]
* [https://www.flickr.com/groups/ettoreximenes/ Flickr.com Ettore Ximenes Group]

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