# Lot Torelli

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**Lot Torelli** (October 30, 1835, in [Florence](/source/Florence) – 1896) was an Italian sculptor.

He studied at the [Academy of Fine Arts](/source/Academy_of_Fine_Arts_of_Florence), but in 1858, due to family misfortunes, had to leave Florence for [Paris](/source/Paris). He returned the next year, enrolling as a volunteer in the war of Independence. By 1862, he returned to making sculpture. In 1865, he won a three-year stipend from the academy.

Among his major works are: a medallion representing the future Queen, Princess Margherite, exhibited at [Florence](/source/Florence) in 1871; *Adam and Eve*, which became statues on the facade of the [Duomo of Florence](/source/Duomo_of_Florence). He submitted sculptures to the 1876 [Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia](/source/Centennial_Exposition,_Philadelphia). Other works were completed alongside [Giuseppe De Fabris](/source/Giuseppe_De_Fabris) include *Il mar glaciale*, bronze bas relief and *The Angel Messenger of Peace* found in the urban cemetery of [Pisa](/source/Pisa).

Torelli completed many funereal monuments, including one commissioned by Marchesa Toscanelli for her son Giovanni, who is buried at his villa alla Chiocciola near Florence; another for signora Giulia Mari and her daughter for the cemetery of Jacopo in [Terenzano](/source/Terenzano). He completed portraits of the son of Mr Doggett of Chicago; the son of Mr Waldo, of New York; of the Duke Pado of Mecklenburg Schwerin; and of Mrs Fiyrer of London. He sculpted a *Triton* for a fountain. *Tasso as a youth*; *The Shameful*; *Psiche al laccio*; *Colomba messaggera*; *Pescatori*; a half-figure of an old man titled *Last Loves*; *Soap Bubbles* (a half-figure); *La sorpresa*; *The princess of Wales*; *Fior di Maria*; *Il soldatino*; *Shakspeare* also called *il fattorino del Beccaio*; and *Eve*. Torelli was the winner of various prizes; in 1869, he won the gold medal at the Exposition for Encouragement of Fine Arts in Rome; in 1871, the Cross of Gold at the International Exhibition in [London](/source/London); and gold medals in Florence, Vienna, and Philadelphia. He became professor of the [Academy of Fine Arts of Florence](/source/Academy_of_Fine_Arts_of_Florence).[1]

## References

1. [‘‘Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.’’](https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz0bAAAAYAAJ), by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 522.

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