Benedetto Boschetti Biography
Benedetto Boschetti was an Italian sculptor and stonemason, born in Rome around 1820 and of whom we have news until around 1879.
A multifaceted and original artist, he occupied a prominent position in 19th century Rome. Boschetti had a very busy shop in Via Condotti, which had become an obligatory stop for European aristocrats engaged in the Grand Tour. In Boschetti's shop there were expensive artistic artefacts in marble, bronze, candelabra, mosaic table centrepieces and even exotic furnishings. He preferred the ancient yellow of Numidia, the ancient red and the dark green Pavonazzetto marble, marbles with a soft and compact paste useful for creating his astonishing works, characterized by great technical ability, creative imagination and precious elegance.
He probably began as a mosaicist and exhibited at the London International Exhibition of 1851, winning a medal.
Subsequently, his production evolved, and Boschetti dedicated himself above all to the marble sculpture of precious objects for foreign customers, demonstrating great mastery.
In 1876 he participated in the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia with the bronze statue "Caesar Augustus" (perhaps an imitation of the statue of Augustus of Prima Porta)
Finally he created a statue of a girl called "The innocent girl" at the request of an English client. His production is present in many private and public collections, such as that of the Toledo museum in Ohio, where there is a copy of the Warwick Vase, sculpted in antique red.
