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3 unusual facts about Antonio Isopi


Antonio Isopi

The ambassador to the Vatican of Württemberg’s Duke Carl Eugen, Gaetano Marini, recommended Isopi to the duke as an ornament designer and animal sculptor.

Antonio Isopi (5 February 1758 – 3 October 1833) was a Roman sculptor of Classicism mainly working at the court of the Dukes (later Kings) of Württemberg.

When, in 1806, Württemberg became a kingdom King Friedrich I commissioned his royal sculptor Isopi, who had been raised to knighthood, to create monmental sculptures of the two heraldic animals, stag and lion.



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