Resumen de Lo scultore Angelo Pizzi (Milano 1775-Venezia 1819)
Angelo Pizzi, who studied in Milan with Giuseppe Perego and then with Giuseppe Franchi, began his career with a relief on the facade of the cathedral. Involved in the decoration of the villa Belgiojoso, he met Andrea Appiani while still young, who occupied him in the models for the statues and reliefs of the High altar of the cathedral of Monza, and then commissioned him the bust of General Desaix, at the Gran San Bernardo (1800-01). After becoming professor in Carrara and then in Venice (from 1807), Pizzi developed a completely neoclassical style, highlighted in the two versions of the statue of Napoleon, and in the busts and relief of Victory (1811-12). During the Restoration he worked on the portrait of Francis the Ist and a group for de "Gift" of the Venetian provinces to Carolina Augusta. After a long illness he died prematurely in Venice in 1819.
