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Pompeo Marchesi was born in Saltrio on August 7, 1783. His father, Carlo Gerolamo, was a marble worker at the Duomo di Milano, and his mother was named Cattarina Tamborini. Read the full biography

Pompeo Marchesi Biography

Pompeo Marchesi was born in Saltrio on August 7, 1783. His father, Carlo Gerolamo, was a marble worker at the Duomo di Milano, and his mother was named Cattarina Tamborini. From a young age, Pompeo followed his father to Milan and studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts with the sculptor Giuseppe Franchi. In 1804, he traveled to Rome to attend a scholarship granted to him by the Braidense institution of the Napoleonic government and attended sculpture courses at the Roman Academy, then directed by Antonio Canova.