Gelindo Monzini

(Mailand 1840 - Mailand 1914)

Biography

Gelindo Monzini

Gelindo Monzini (1840–1914) was a Milanese Italian sculptor known for refined marble busts, especially idealised female figures such as Flora. Active in Milan and exhibiting from Turin in 1868, then Rome, Naples and London, he carved with delicate surface finish, floral detail and sentimental elegance, reflecting late nineteenth-century Italian taste for graceful decorative sculpture.