Ettore Ferrari was an Italian sculptor.

Biography

Born in Rome

Rome

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 to an artistic family (his father was also a painter), Ferrari was one of the members of the artistic rebirth in the secular state

Secular state

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 born after the Italian Unification

Italian unification

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. For a long time, he was a professor at the Accademia di San Luca

Accademia di San Luca

The Accademia di San Luca, was founded in 1577 as an association of artists in Rome, under the directorship of Federico Zuccari, with the purpose of elevating the work of "artists", which included painters, sculptors and architects, above that of mere craftsmen. Other founders included Girolamo...

, a deputy in the Italian Parliament and Grand Master

Grand Master (Masonic)

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 of the Grande Oriente d'Italia

Grande Oriente d'Italia

The Grand Orient of Italy is a masonic organization based at Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1805.Past grand masters included:*Giuseppe Garibaldi,*the sculptor Ettore Ferrari,*the mayor of Rome Ernesto Nathan and...

,. the main Masonic

Freemasonry

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 body in Italy.

In 1887, he created a statue of Ovid

Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria...

 for the city of Constanţa

Constanta

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, Romania

Romania

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 (the ancient Tomis, where the Latin poet was exiled) and this statue has been duplicated in 1925 for Sulmona

Sulmona

thumb|150px|Celestine V's hermitage and the remains of the Shrine of Hercules Curinus.thumb|150px|Palazzo SS. Annunziata and Museo Civicothumb|150px|Church of SS...

, Ovid's birthplace. Another important work is the bronze statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and...

, created in 1892, located in Pisa in the square with the same name.

Ferrari also sculpted the statue of Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno , born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited...

 in Campo de' Fiori

Campo de' Fiori

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square in Rome.