Pompeo Coppini was an Italian immigrant sculptor whose career led him to Chicago, New York, and Texas. It is primarily in Texas that Coppini's works are most evident, and he displayed great affection for the romantic past of San Antonio. His many Centennial sculpture commissions were a cumulative sum of his art, including the empty tomb, or 'Cenotaph', which honors the site where most of the Alamo's heroes were thought to have died.
In his autobiography, published in 1949, Coppini claims (showing 500 of 5874 characters). |
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