Portrait of a young girl, Ezio Ceccarelli (1865-1937)
Ezio Ceccarelli (1865-1937) Portrait of a young girl Marble, cm alt 26 x 44 x 18 The work depicting the bust of a young girl covered by the rich cloak with hood that wraps around her shoulders is the work of the Tuscan sculptor Ezio Ceccarelli. He was born in Montecatini in Val di Cecina on July 27, 1865 from a family of humble origins. His father, who went to live in Florence, was first placed in the office of the lawyer Oreste Ciampi, who seeing in the boy a greater inclination for drawing and art than for citations and legal acts, placed him in the studio of the sculptor Ulisse Cambi, where Ceccarelli stayed for a year, then enrolling at the Academy of Fine Arts, knowing the pr