Giovanni Aldo Foratti

Place: Bologna

Born: 1771

Death: 1847

Biography:

Giovanni Putti was an Italian sculptor born in Bologna in 1771 and died in the same city in 1847. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna with Giacomo De Maria. He worked in Milan between 1809 and 1814, where he made important official commissions such as the four bronze Victories on the Arch of Peace and the tripod of silver offered by the Kingdom of Italy to the King of Rome, son of Napoleon and Maria Luisa of Austria. Back in Bologna, he devoted himself mainly to the realization of funerary monuments in the Certosa di Bologna. He was the father and teacher of Massimiliano Putti.