 Giuseppe Ceracci is primarily known as Giuseppe (Joseph) Ceracchi
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Giuseppe Ceracchi, born in 1751, was the earliest and most important Italian Neo-classical sculptor to work in America. Ceracchi distinguished himself as a sculptor first in his native Italy, then, in the late 1770s, in London, and again at the Austrian court in Vienna. He returned to Rome in the 1780s, and arrived in this country early in 1791, inspired with the desire to win a commission for his proposed 100-foot monument to Liberty.
Toward that end, he produced a series of busts of th (showing 500 of 1938 characters). |
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