Tommaso Solari

Tommaso Solari (Naples, September 4, 1820 - 1889[1]) was an Italian sculptor active in a Romantic-style.

In the scuola del nudo exhibitions of Rome, and in diverse Expositions, he was awarded numerous prizes.

The critic Agostino Della Sala Spada wrote of him: "Solari was not a revolutionary, nor a leader of a scuola, nor a grandiose man, like many young artists do today.

Regarding his statue of Charles of Anjou the critic continued: This sculpture honest, fair, academic in style, which has done so much honor in Naples, his art respects the past and it continues the beautiful and glorious traditions, showing novelty only in time ... it draws the best from the past and the present ... for a while, the ungrateful and unworthy pupils accused him of senility, of not reflecting reality, of overly academic, and I know, the master of this art, art fair, made of serenity and of constant work, has emerged powerfully, so no doubt, once again, for feeling, for dignity, for modelling .

And while it is true that the folds of the mantle are a bit adjusted, do not forget, that the sculpture can not be never sciamannatezza (good for nothing), that certain lines is well kept, the composure that stops the eye, and there conquers, while certain daring project for the innovators, who decry it and can not explain it, and that, finally, if the face of Charles d'Anjou fails, humanly, unpleasant and repulsive, so, and not otherwise, unless the artist had not wanted to betray the story, he had to, and wanted to represent him.