Pietro Tenerani

He initially trained with his maternal uncle, the sculptor Pietro Marchetti, and in 1813, obtained a stipend to study in Rome.

He was prolific and worked in a chaste neoclassical style into the mid-nineteenth century, specialising in pious subjects.

He completed a bas-relief for the Monument to Alberto Mattioli, designed by Luigi Poletti, for the church of Sant'Agostino in Rimini.

[1] He sculpted a bust of Pellegrino Rossi, the ill-fated minister of Pius IX, and of Carlota of Mexico, former empress, and widow of Maximilian.

He was buried in the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli alle Terme Diocleziane.