Description
Biography
Riccardo Marc Alexandre Aurili, known as Richard Aurili (1864–1943), was an Italian sculptor born in Bibbona, Tuscany, who worked in Italy, Belgium, and France. Trained in Florence, he settled in Paris in the early 1890s and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français. His work includes portraits, female busts, allegorical figures, and monumental sculptures, in an academic style sometimes influenced by Art Nouveau. From the First World War onward, he lived on the French Riviera, where he continued his work as a sculptor and ran the studio Aux Arts Florentins.
Literature
General catalogue of cultural property of the Italian Ministry of Culture, notice of the war memorial of Ponte Nuovo, Pieve Santo Stefano; Municipal archives of Antibes Juan-les-Pins and civil status of Villeneuve-Loubet; documentation relating to the Salons of French Artists and to the activity of Richard Aurili on the French Riviera.
Institutional reference
The Italian national catalogue of cultural heritage documents in Pieve Santo Stefano a war memorial dated 1925, whose marble sculpture is attributed, with the reservations of the notice, to Riccardo Aurili, identified as "scultore Aurili di Firenze". Ministry of Culture — General catalog of blessed cultures.
Discover Richard Aurili at DIZAGN
This bust of a young Breton woman is currently the work of Richard Aurili, documented at DIZAGN. DIZAGN Expertise.
