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Marchesi, Pompeo
(b Saltrio, nr Como, 7 Aug 1783; d Milan, 6 Feb 1858). Italian sculptor. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan under the aegis of the Neo-classicist Giuseppe Franchi (1731–1806). In 1804 he won a government scholarship to continue his education in Rome, where he remained for five years, studying under Antonio Canova. During this period he sent at least two examples of his work to the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, including the plaster low relief of Socrates Urging Alcibiades to Leave a Brothel (1807; Milan, Gal. A. Mod.). Returning to Milan, in 1811 he won first prize for sculpture in a government-sponsored competition, with a terracotta group, completed in Rome, of the Belvedere Torso Restored and Assembled with the Apollo (1811; Milan, Gal. A. Mod.). By 1810 he had already begun his lifelong collaboration with the cathedral works of Milan Cathedral, for which he created numerous statues of saints, including the prophets Ezekiel and Amos (1810–11) for the cathedral’s façade. In 1813 he was summoned by the architect Luigi Cagnola to take part in the sculptural decoration of the Arco della Pace, Milan, for which he created various marble reliefs, including the Foundation of the Kingdom of Lombardy and Venice (1829–30) and the Occupation of Lyon (c. 1813–26); he used models created by Camillo Pacetti before 1814 for the two Victories on the front facing the countryside and sculpted the colossal statues of the rivers Adige and Tagliamento for the crown of the arch.
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