Name
Contratti, Luigi

Gender
Male

Birth
April 11, 1868 Portogruaro

Death
October 27, 1923 Turin

Descriptive Note

After moving with his family to Brescia, Lombardy, Luigi Contratti apprenticed at a very young age as a stone cutter. In 1882 he moved to Turin where he enrolled in the Accademia Albertina and joined the studio of Leonardo Bistolfi. After graduating in 1888, he was offrered a position of adjunct professor at the Accademia, which he held for 14 years. At the Accademia, he also taught sculpture. He created funerary monuments for the Turin cemetery, and completed two of the statues of the Umberto I Bridge representing "Valor on the Battlefied" and "Pietas." He worked on the statues of the Fontana dei Dodici Mesi. He was also active internationally, especially Argentina, France, and Mexico. 

On the occasion of the Turin 1911 Exposition, he created the statues in the Water Castle.

Roles
Artists (Visual Artists), Sculptors

Related Locations

• Turin (province)

Related Built Environment Objects

• Umberto I Bridge
• Court of Honor and access to the Water Castle
• Fountain of the Twelve Months
• Monumental Waterfall

Related Archival Material