Giannino Castiglioni

silver medallion for the Milan International Exhibition 1906; the obverse shows the Simplon Tunnel|260x260px Giannino Castiglioni was born on 4 May 1884 in Milan, the son of Giacomo Castiglioni and Piera Bergamaschi. His father was director of the Stefano Johnson mint in that city. Castiglioni studied sculpture under Enrico Butti at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. He first exhibited at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906, where he showed medals, a plaster statue and a painting. Castiglioni first opened a large studio on the Corso di Porta Nuova, He married Livia Bolla, with whom he had four children: Livio (b. 1911), Pier Giacomo (b. 1913) and Achille (b. 1918). A daughter named Piera died in her infancy and is memorialised with a funerary sculpture by her father. He died in Lierna on 27 August 1971. , Livio, and Pier Giacomo (1922)|260x260px == Work ==

From 1922 until 1928 Castiglioni worked on the plaster casts for friezes and monumental sculptures for the Palacio Legislativo of Montevideo, Uruguay; these were shipped to Uruguay, and the bronze or marble sculptures were made there. In the Fascist era he worked on sculptures for war cemeteries and monuments to the dead of the First World War, including: the military memorial of Monte Grappa (1935) in the Veneto; the (1937) in the comune of Paluzza, Udine; the military ossuary of Caporetto, now Kobarid, Slovenia; and the war memorial of Redipuglia (1938) in the province of Gorizia. In 1941 he made the tomb of Pope Pius XI in the Vatican Grottoes. == Reception ==

Castiglioni won the competition for the prize medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906. In 1922 he won the international competition to provide sculptures for the Palacio Legislativo of Montevideo. He left more than three hundred of his preparatory plaster casts to the comune of Lierna; a museum is to house them is under construction. File:El trabajo (Jardines del Palacio Legislativo) - Giannino Castiglioni.JPG|El trabajo, bronze, Palacio Legislativo, Montevideo, Uruguay File:PiusXItomb2.jpg|Tomb of Pius XI, St. Peter's, Rome File:Antonio Bernocchi grave Milan 2015.jpg|Tomb of Antonio Bernocchi, Cimitero Monumentale di Milano ==References==