Ivan Vitali

Russian sculptor

Ivan Petrovich Vitali (Russian: Иван Петрович Витали; 1794–1855) was a Russian sculptor of Italian descent. Born in Saint Petersburg, he was apprenticed to his father, Pietro Vitali, from an early age. After attending the Imperial Academy of Arts he moved to Moscow in 1818. His major works include a six-horse chariot for Bove's Triumphal Arch, a fountain in front of the Bolshoi Theatre (1825),^[1] the bas-reliefs above the doors of St. Isaac's Cathedral, and an outdoor bronze statue of Emperor Paul in Gatchina.

Works

Large headboard group crowning the Bauman Higher Technical School in Moscow, formerly the Trade Educationa Establishment technical training center. 1820s.^[2]
No. 14 Solyanka street, designed by Giacomo Gilardi, bas reliefs, 1823-26^[3]
No. 14 Leninsky Prospekt, gateway pillars (1835), and a fountain in the forecourt that "originally stood in Dzerzhinsky Square."^[4]

The statue of Venus removing her sandals (Stuttgart)
The statue of Emperor Paul in Gatchina
Petrovka Fountain in Moscow
Vitali's fountain in the Neskuchny Garden
St. Isaac's Cathedral

References

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^ Mears 1968, p. 131.
^ Mears 1968, p. 127.
^ Mears 1968, p. 149.
^ Mears 1968, p. 155.

Bibliography

Mears, Bernard (1968). Moscow: Architecture and Monuments. Translated by Bean. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
Якирина Т. В., Одноралов Н. В., Витали, Л.-М., 1960.