Raffaele Menconi was an Italian sculptor who established a practice in New York City

New York City

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 with his brother Giuseppe (Joseph). Menconi realised the bronze architectural sculptures and fittings for a generation of Beaux-Arts architects, such as Carrère and Hastings

Carrère and Hastings

Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings , located in New York City, was one of the outstanding Beaux-Arts architecture firms in the United States. The partnership operated from 1885 until 1911, when Carrère was killed in an automobile accident...

; Menconi's bronze flagpole bases for the Fifth Avenue front of the New York Public Library

New York Public Library Main Branch

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 (1912, illustrated) are particularly prominent. Another pair of bronze flagpole bases by Menconi, showing an American eagle and representations of the four season

Season

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s, to designs of Egerton Swartwout, stand before the Missouri State Capitol

Missouri State Capitol

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He married Josephine Zampieri; their son, Ralph J. Menconi

Ralph J. Menconi

Ralph J. Menconi was a noted medal sculptor who received the Freedom Foundation Award and the Michelangelo Award and was awarded with the title “Sculptor of the Year” in 1970...

(1915-1972), who apprenticed in his father's New York studio, was also a well-known sculptor and medalist.