Pasquale Romanelli

Pasquale entered an apprenticeship in a studio producing alabaster sculptures, studying in his free time.

When he was barely fifteen years old, he became an apprentice in the studio of Luigi Pampaloni, in Piazza San Marco, who trained him sculpting Carrara statuary marble.

He was quickly promoted to assisting the master in the carving of the statues of Arnolfo di Cambio and Filippo Brunelleschi, now placed in the Piazza del Duomo in Florence.

Pasquale worked on the statue of Francesco Ferrucci (1847), which was then placed in an alcove of the loggiato of the Uffizi Gallery in Piazza della Signoria.

A young Pasquale joined the revolutionary groups Giovine Italia who urged independence from the Austrians.

The first was to transform the plaster of Fiducia in Dio into marble, which now resides in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

Pasquale created the portrait bust for a funeral monument of Bartolini in the Basilica of Santa Croce in 1858.

He opened an art gallery on the Lungarno Acciaiuoli where completed works could be sold directly to the public.