Florentine Bust

Important and very rare Carrara marble bust signed on the back "Professor Ulisse Cambi and dated 1858".
Ulisse Cambi, son of the sculptor Pietro Cambi, after attending the art school and academy in Florence, he continued his studies in Rome from 1833, staying four years in the capital.
Back in Florence, after a difficult first period, he succeeded in establishing himself in the local artistic community and was appointed professor at the academy where he taught sculpture. Among the different artists trained in his school, we can remember the Sienese sculptor Giovanni Dupré and Giorgio Ceragioli who worked mainly in Piedmont.
From the 1940s onwards, Cambi created important works such as the statue of Bienvenuto Cellini and that of Carlo Goldini (both in Florence) and the fountain in Piazza Duomo in Prato. In particular, certain funerary monuments were very appreciated such as that dedicated to the painter Guiseppe Sabatelli (Florence, San Croce church).
With the prevalence of the verist tendency, its classism has alienated the favor of critics and patrons.
He died in Florence in 1895.
It is a sculpture of museum quality !