About Alessandro Lazzerini

Alessandro Lazzerini (1869-1942)

Alessandro Lazzerini was born in Carrara and studied at the Carrara Academy. He was a pupil of Ferdinando Pelliccia (1808-1892). He was part of the Lazzerini family of sculptors that ran a marble workshop in Carrara over multiple generations dating back to 1640 and was related to Pietro Lazzerini (1842-1918), who exhibited in Florence, Milan and Berlin, and his brother Giuseppe Lazzerini (1831-1895) who exhibited at the International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Dublin, in 1865.

Alessandro specialised in genre, and allegorical subjects, and won medals at both the 1889 and 1900 Expositions Universelles. He exhibited a group titled ‘La Force’ at the Paris Salon of 1910 (No. 335). Of his monuments, the one to Pergolesi in Jesi and the Monument to Petrarch in Arezzo are his most celebrated. Alessandro’s numerous monuments, statues and decorative oeuvre stand as fine examples of the late 19th century Italian skill and eclecticism.

Bibliography:
J. Mackay, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Woodbridge, 1992, p, 226.
A. Panzetta, Dizionario Degli Scultori Italiani, Vol. I, Torino, 1994, p. 164.
L. Passeggia, ‘The Marble Trade: The Lazzarini Workshop and the Arts, Crafts and Entrepreneurs of Carrara in the Early Nineteenth Century’, in C. Sicca & A. Yarrington (eds.), The Lustrous Trade Material Culture and The History of Sculpture in England and Italy, c. 1700- c. 1860, Leicester, 2000, 156-173.