Giulio ricciarelli biography of abraham lincoln

Italian family, carved significant marble sculptures in the United States

The Piccirilli Brothers were an Italian family of renowned marblecarvers and sculptors who carved many of the most significant marble sculptures in the United States, including Daniel Chester French’s colossal Abraham Lincoln () in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

History

In , Giuseppe Piccirilli (–),^[1] a well-known stone carver in Massa and a veteran of Garibaldi's Unification war, brought his family to New York City.^[2][3][4] Giuseppe, who was born in Rome and received his early training in the atelier of Roman sculptor Stefano Galletti, came from a long line of stone carvers, unbroken since the days of the early Renaissance.^[5][6][7] All six of Giuseppe's sons—Ferruccio (–),^[8]Attilio (–),^[9][10]Furio (–),^[11] Masaniello (aka Thomas) (–),^[12] Orazio