彼得羅·卡爾維

阿方索·潘澤塔，《新一代意大利雕塑家，十九世紀至二十世紀初》，米蘭，1990年，第1冊，第193頁

《生命的色彩 古今雕塑中的彩飾法》展覽圖錄，洛杉磯保羅·蓋蒂博物館，2008年，第160-161頁

《雕塑的色彩1840-1910》展覽圖錄，阿姆斯特丹梵谷博物館，1996年，第125-126頁

Born in Milan, Pietro Calvi studied at the Accademia, but the greatest formative influence on the young artist was Giovanni Seleroni with whom he collaborated.  It was Seleroni who encouraged Calvi's colouristic experiments - some of his most famous works feature marbles of different colours.  Calvi worked, like so many of his contemporaries, on the decoration of Milan Cathedral for which he carved the statue of the St Valeria.  He also worked in the nearby Galleria Vittorio Emmanuel.  Most of his Ideal busts explore theatrical and operatic subjects.  Selika (see lot 40, Sotheby's London, 26 November 1998) and  Aida (see lot 68, Sotheby's London, 9 December 1993) are well known examples.  Calvi's American sojourn resulted in his much reproduced busts of Uncle Tom and The Minstrel (Sotheby's, London, 9 July 2002, lot 160).

RELATED LITERATURE
Alfonso Panzetta,Nuovo dizionario delgi scultori Italiani. Dell’ottocento e del primo novocento, Milan, 1990, vol. 1, p. 193;
The Colour of Life. Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to Present, exh. cat. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2008, pp. 160-161;
The Colour of Sculpture 1840-1910, exh. cat. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1996, pp. 125-126