Flight from Pompeii
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
Approx.: 115.6 × 72.4 × 86.4 cm (45 1/2 × 28 1/2 × 34 in.)
Classification
large scale
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
56931
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Giovanni Maria Benzoni · 1809–1873
**Giovanni Maria Benzoni (1809–1873)** was an Italian neoclassical sculptor renowned for his elegant marble figures that captured the refined tastes of 19th-century collectors on the Grand Tour. Born on August 28, 1809, in the small mountain village of Songavazzo near Bergamo to a family of modest means, Benzoni began his working life as a shepherd and then as an apprentice carpenter in his uncle’...