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Bernardelli, Rodolfo
(b Guadalajara, 1852; d Rio de Janeiro, 1931). Brazilian sculptor. The son of Italian musicians, he spent his childhood in Mexico and Chile before coming to Brazil with his family. In 1870 he was already enrolled in the course on statuary sculpture in the Academia Imperial das Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro, from where he was awarded a trip to Europe in 1876. He remained abroad until 1885, living briefly in Paris from 1878 to 1879 but staying mainly in Rome, where he finished his studies with Achille Monteverdi. During that time he executed one of his best-known works, the marble Christ and the Adulteress (1884; Rio de Janeiro, Mus. N. B.A.), which bears witness to the persistence in Brazil of a Neo-classically based naturalism throughout the 19th century and beyond. He taught in the Academia Imperial, and when this was renamed the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes with the establishment of the Republic, he became its director from 1890 to 1915. In his day he was one of the country’s most sought-after sculptors, and several Brazilian cities have works by him in their public parks, such as the Monument to the Discovery of Brazil in the Jardim da Glória, Rio de Janeiro, and the mausoleum of Emperor Peter II in Petrópolis Cemetery.
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