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          Giovanni Maria Benzoni, –, Male Head (possibly Saint Aloysius Gonzaga), Image credit: Victoria Art Gallery.

        1. Giovanni Maria Benzoni, –, Male Head (possibly Saint Aloysius Gonzaga), Image credit: Victoria Art Gallery.
        2. The European collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts include two of his marbles: Zephyr Dancing with Flora (; fig.
        3. Giovanni Maria Benzoni ( - ) was active/lived in Italy.
        4. One of the Bergamo area's most famous sculptors, Giovanni Maria Benzoni, was born on August 28,
        5. Giovanni Maria BENZONI ().

          6. Giovanni Maria Benzoni ( - ) was active/lived in Italy..

          By Costanza Beltrami

          The Neoclassical sculptor Giovanni Maria (or Giammaria) Benzoni was born on 28 August 1809 in Songavazzo, near Bergamo.

          His parents, farmers of modest means, intended him to learn carpentry in an uncle’s workshop. Working as apprentice carpenter, Benzoni revealed his precocious artistic skill.

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          Impressed by his abilities, the art enthusiast Count Luigi Tadini offered him a place at his Academy of Fine Arts in Lovere, a nearby town. Tadini later financed Benzoni’s move to Rome, where the artist finished his studies at the Academy of Saint Luke.

          His elegant marble sculptures, clearly inspired by Antonio Canova, were an immediate success in the city. He soon established a studio numbering more than 50 assistants. Overall, this studio produced more than 518 works, including multiple versions of popular compositions. 

          Benzoni sculpted allegorical and mythological scenes, but also busts and funerary monuments for contemporary celebrities, for exampl