Quick Facts
Biography
Aristodemo Costoli (1803–1871) was an Italian sculptor who spent his entire career in the city of Florence. His students included Girolamo Masini, Augusto Rivalta and his son Leopoldo Costoli.
Partial Anthology of Works
Florence
- Galileo in Tribune of Galileo, at Museo della Specola (1832);
- Pegasus, in Giardino di Boboli;
- tondo dedicated to Arnolfo di Cambio in Duomo di Firenze;
- bust of Cosimo Buonarroti and Rosina Vendramin, in Casa Buonarroti;
- Monument to L. Matteucci(1845), in Badia Fiorentina;
- Discovery of America, in Hall 5 of Galleria d'arte moderna (Firenze) in Palazzo Pitti;
- Monument to Galileo, exterior Uffizi (1851);
- Jeremiah (Palazzo Pitti);
- Funeral Monument to Della Gherardesca (Santa Maria del Fiore a Lapo);
- Bas-relief of Villa Paolina (Sesto Fiorentino).
Other Cities of Italy
- Prudence and Columbus placing flag on Beach (1862), monument to Christopher Columbus of Genoa.
- Monument to Cavour (1868), with statue dedicated to Cavour and two bas-reliefs, at Piazza Cavour in Ancona
- Monument to Angelica Catalani (1859), Camposanto di Pisa.
- Bust of Leopold II, Museo nazionale di villa Guinigi, Lucca.
Other countries:
- Santiago, Chile: Monument to Pedro de Valdivia
- Sankt Peterburg: Memorial to Ekaterina Arkadievna Kotchoubey and his doughter Vera
- Private commissions, England.
Galileo Galilei (Museo della Specola, Florence)
Galileo Galilei (Museo della Specola, Florence)
Leopold II (Museo della Specola, Florence)
Cavour (Cavour square, Ancona)
Congress of Paris (Cavour square, Ancona)
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy (Cavour square, Ancona)
Geremia (Palazzo Pitti, Florence)
Angelica Catalani (Camposanto, Pisa)
Memorial Della Gherardesca (Santa Maria del Fiore a Lapo, Florence)
Bust of Cosimo Buonarroti (Casa Buonarroti, Florence)
Pedro de Valdivia (collina di Santa Lucía, Santiago de Chile)
Arnolfo di Cambio (Florence, cathedral)
Galileo Galilei(galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
Christopher Colombus monument in Genua, (only two statues on the basement)
