Alessandro Nelli

Alessandro Nelli was an Italian entrepreneur. Nelli was the founder of the Fonderia Nelli, which was the leading sculpture foundry in Rome from 1880 to 1900. He participated to national, international and universal exhibitions, winning several prizes and medals. He exported more than 100 pieces to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Nelli made artistic bronzes for several Italian and foreign artists, including several American artists.

Works

Odoardo Tabacchi, Monument to Arnaldo da Brescia, Brescia, Piazzale Arnaldo
Ettore Ferrari, Monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II, Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice^{:it:Alessandro_Nelli#cite_note-5|}
William Wetmore Story, Monument to William Prescott, Boston
William Wetmore Story, Monument John Marshall, US Supreme Court, Washington D.C.
Pius Welonsky, Gladiator, National Museum, Warsaw
Franklin Simmons, Monument to John Logan, Logan Circle, Washington, D.C., 1892–1901
, Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi, BresciaReliquary of St Adamo Abate, Guglionesi
Edward Müller, The Torch, Accademia di San Luca, Rome^{:it:Alessandro_Nelli#cite_note-6|}
Ernesto Biondi, Monument to Manuel Montt and Antonio Varas, Santiago, Chile, 1900–1904
Ernesto Biondi, Saturnalia, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
Giulio Tadolini, Equestrian monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II, 1890, Perugia
Giulio Tadolini, Monument to Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield, 1893, Córdoba, Argentina
Richard Henry Park, Monument to Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks, 1890, Indiana State House, Indianapolis, US
Randolph Rogers, The last arrow, 1879–1880, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Carlo Filippo Chiaffarino, Monument to Count Canevaro, Zoagli, Genoa
Pietro Costa, Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, 1881–1889, Turin
Ettore Ferrari, Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, c. 1880, Venice
Ettore Ferrari, Monument to the poet Ovidius, 1887, Constanța, Romania
Giulio Monteverde, Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, 1888, Bologna
Giulio Monteverde, Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, 1889, Ferrara
Giovanni Anderlini, Monument to Simón Bolívar, 1889, Guayaquil
Eugenio Maccagnani, Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1889, Brescia
Vincenzo Ragusa, Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1892, Palermo
Augusto Rivalta, Monument to King Victor Emmanuel, 1893, Livorno
Cesare Zocchi, Monument to Dante Alighieri, 1896, Trento
Giovanni Ciniselli, Monument to marquiss Bernardo de Sá da Bandeira, 1884, Lisbon
Felipe Moratilla, Monument to general José Prudencio Padilla, Riohacha
Manuel Oms Canet, Monument to queen Isabella of Castilla, 1883, Madrid
Eduardo Barrón González, Viriatus, 1883, Zamora
Prosper d’Épinay, Paul et Virginie, Curepipe

Additional sources

Angelo de Gubernatis, Dizionario di artisti italiani viventi, Firenze, 1906, p. 235.
Thieme-Becker, Allgemeinesküntlerlexikon, p. 25, p. 385
E. Colle, A. Griseri, R. Valeriani, Bronzi decorativi in Italia: bronzisti e fonditori italiani dal Seicento all'Ottocento, Milano, Electa, 2001, pp. 42, 320–323, 386.
P. Coen, Il recupero del Rinascimento. Arte, politica e mercato nei primi anni di Roma capitale , Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2020, pp. 177–187.