Florentine Marble Bust

Important and very rare bust in Carrara marble signed on the back "Professor Ulysse Cambi" and dated 1858.
Ulysse Cambi, son of the sculptor Pietro Cambi, after attending the art school and the academy of Florence, he continued his studies in Rome from 1833, staying four years in the capital.
Back in Florence; after a difficult first period, he managed to establish himself in the local artistic circles and was appointed professor at the academy where he taught sculpture.
Among the various artists trained in his school, we can remember the Sienese sculptor Giovanni Dupré and Giorgio Ceragioli who worked mainly in Piedmont. From the forties, Cambi created important works such as the statue of Bienvenuto Cellini and that of Carlo Goldoni (both in Florence) and the fountain of the Piazza Duomo in Prata. In particular, some funerary monuments were highly appreciated, such as the one dedicated to the painter Guiseppe Sabatelli (Florence, Church of Santa Croze).
With the prevalence of the verist trend, his classicism alienated the favor of critics and patrons.
He died in Florence in 1895.

A sculpture of museum quality !
Italian school, Florence 1858.