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Antonio Bozzano, sometimes referred to as Bozano (Genoa, February 9, 1858 - Pietrasanta, January 13, 1939), was an Italian sculptor.

He studied at the Ligurian Academy from 1873 under the guidance of Giovan Battista Cevasco. He taught at the Stagio Stagi School of Art in Pietrasanta from 1893 until 1929. He trained various sculptors and marble workers, and the prestige obtained through teaching earned him various commissions. Although he was close to Republican and Masonic spheres, he actively worked for ecclesiastical clients.

In addition to a copious production of funerary monuments, in the 1920s he created war memorials. His sister Rachele married the sculptor Giacomo Zilocchi, who also worked in Pietrasanta.

Style

He is indicated as the most significant sculptor working in Versilia in the period between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

He works at the Viareggio Cemetery were celebrated at the time for their humanity and for the characterization of an elegant interpretation of Liberty plastic. This was partly due to the influence of Bistolfi. His masterpiece, the monument to the drowned children Raffaello Lencioni and Mario Paci, 1910, synthesizes Art Nouveau linearism and neo-Michelangelo. The style followed that of Auguste Rodin, and was followed in the 1910s and early 1920s.

Collaborators and students

His son Augusto also collaborated with his father's workshop, especially in 1926 in the creation of the Ponsacco War Memorial. He collaborated with the Barsanti Laboratories, Ellrich Brothers, Ferdinando Palla and Tomagnini of Pietrasanta.

Among his pupils was Fidia Palla.