Giorgio Ceragioli (sculptor)

[2] After moving to Turin Ceragioli worked with Augusto Ferri, a set designer and painter very active in Piemonte.

In that city he also became a popular painter, mainly exhibiting his artworks in the local "Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti" (Fine Arts' Promotion Society).

He notably realized the artistic decorations of Palazzo Marsaglia (Milan) and worked for a long time in Turin for the "Teatro Regio" (Royal Theatre) both as painter and as set designer.

In 1914 with Cesare Biscarra Ceragioli realized in Valentino Park of Torino a monument to Ascanio Sobrero.

[4] After World War I his artistic activity went on both as sculptor and as painter: noticeable among this period's sculptures are an Alpino's statue in Villar Perosa and the bronze high relief conceived to commemorate dead bersaglieri of the Great War; sculpted in 1923 it was located in 1936 in the Lamarmora gardens of Turin.