Giovanni Maria Benzoni

Giovanni Maria Benzoni (28 August 1809 – 28 April 1873) was an Italian neoclassical sculptor.

Benzoni designed some of his sculptures with a production line in mind using other sculptors to produce the works in order to satisfy a growing demand for people on the Grand Tour who wanted cultural mementos to take back home.

Benzoni produced sculpture for the funeral monument to the Roman Catholic Italian Cardinal Angelo Mai.

Benzoni also created the white marble image of Saint Anne and the child Blessed Virgin Mary which was granted a decree of pontifical coronation on 9 September 1877 after his death by Pope Pius IX, now enshrined within the Apt Cathedral of Saint Anne.

Examples of his Flight from Pompeii can be found in Todmorden Town Hall, Yorkshire and the statuary pavilion at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, Victoria Australia.