Giuseppe Grandi

After his Turin period, he returned to Milan, where he joined the Lombard Scapigliatura school.

He was a friend of Cremona and Ranzoni, and with them assumed a renewed anti-academist position and shared their common luministic research.

Forgetting neoclassical smoothness and the lucidity of Romantic art, he sought the luministic effects of painting in sculpture.

One of his best-known works is the monument to Cesare Beccaria of 1871, along with the lesser-known paggio di Lara of 1873 and his Maresciallo Ney of 1874.

For each of the Five Days he had many different and well-known models pose, but he died in 1894, before he could see his work inaugurated.