Triscorni А. and Triscorni P., sculptors

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TRISCORNI (Trescornia), a family of Italian masters of monumental sculpture. Agostino Triscorni (1761-1824, St. Petersburg) worked in St. Petersburg from the late 1790s (decorative sculptures for the Gatchina Palace, the Imperial Public Library, the Mikhailovsky Castle). In 1810 he organized the workshop to produce gravestones (Voznesensky Avenue, next to Kazanskaya Street) and also traded monuments created by his elder brother Paolo and transported from Italy: Three Graces in Pavlovsk (1803); The Dioskures at the Manege (1806-09, put up in 1817); Watch Lions (1810) at the Lobanov-Rostov mansion (put up in 1820). Paolo worked in Carrara where he led the sculpture studio in the academy (he visited St. Petersburg in 1793). His son, Alexander Triscorni (1797-1867), Agostino's nephew, led the studio after his uncle's death until Agostino's children had come of age. Paul and Agostino were owners of Triscorni and Co. that was established in 1832 (the corner of Gorokhovaya and Sadovaya streets). The company produced decorative sculptures and existed until 1870s (the last owner was Avgustin Avgustinovich Triscorni). Triscorni's works have preserved in St. Petersburg cemeteries (Triscorni's mourner: the sculpture of mourning Psyche). Augostino Triscorni's studio was a starting ground for Ivan Vitali and Boris Orlovsky.

Reference: Пирютко Ю. М. Братья Трискорни // Невский архив: Ист.-краевед. сб. М.; СПб., 1993. [Вып. 1]. С. 159-172.

Y. M. Piryutko. Orlovsky (real name Smirnov) Boris Ivanovich
The Triscornis
Triscorni Agostino
Triscorni Alessandro
Triscorni Augustin Augustinovich
Vitali Ivan Petrovich
Gorokhovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city
Sadovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Voznesensky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Пирютко Ю. М. Братья Трискорни // Невский архив: Ист.-краевед. сб. М.; СПб., 1993 Russian National Library
Mikhailovsky Castle
Lobanov-Rostovsky, House of
Manege