Luigi Pichler was a German

Germany

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-Italian

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 artist in engraved gems.

Son of Anton Pichler

Anton Pichler

For the Austrian footballer named Anton Pichler, see Anton Pichler .----Anton Pichler was a Tyrolean goldsmith and artist of engraved gems, and the son of a doctor....

 and half-brother and student of Giovanni Pichler

Giovanni Pichler

Giovanni Pichler was a German-Italian artist in engraved gems.He was the son of Anton Pichler and brother and teacher of Luigi Pichler, he was educated by his father in classical methods, and apprenticed to Domenico Corvi He cut, after 15 years, a Hercules in Combat with the Nemean Lions, a...

, Luigi was an appentice to his greatly renowned 39-year older brother and painter Domenico de Angelis. He travelled to Vienna

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, where he, in 1818, was made professor of gem-engraving at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, and where he, working for Francis I

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor

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, created replicas of some of the most famous gems in Austria as part of the Vienna Cabinet, a gift for Pope Pius VII

Pope Pius VII

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. His works are almost exclusively intaglio, and he created many copies of his brother's and father's work. In 1850 he turned back to Rome, where he died in 1854.

His works include a head of Ajax

Ajax (mythology)

Ajax or Aias was a mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis. He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War. To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus , he is called "Telamonian Ajax," "Greater...

, the gods Apollo

Apollo

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, Mars

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, Venus

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Venus is a Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty, sex,sexual seduction and fertility, who played a key role in many Roman religious festivals and myths...

, Cupid

Cupid

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, and Psyche

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, a head of Julius Cæsar; as well as two heads of Jesus

Jesus

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.