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The ceramist and sculptor Enrico Napoleone Mazzolani was born in Senigallia in 1878 into a rich patrician family and completed his classical studies in Senigallia, then moved to Rome where he remained from 1897 to 1901, becoming a pupil of Ettore Ferrari and frequenting the group of artists that met around Dulio Cambellotti. In 1904 he spent a period of time in Faenza where he collaborated with some local brickyards and where he began to frequent Domenico Baccarini and his "cenacle". Read the full biography

The ceramist and sculptor Enrico Napoleone Mazzolani was born in Senigallia in 1878 into a rich patrician family and completed his classical studies in Senigallia, then moved to Rome where he remained from 1897 to 1901, becoming a pupil of Ettore Ferrari and frequenting the group of artists that met around Dulio Cambellotti. In 1904 he spent a period of time in Faenza where he collaborated with some local brickyards and where he began to frequent Domenico Baccarini and his "cenacle". Starting from the end of the second decade of the century, he began a collaboration with the "Cooperativa Lavoranti in Terracotta" of Milan, creating some majolica figurines. In 1924 he participated in the National Exhibition of Modern Ceramics in Pesaro and in the following years he participated in the Art Biennials of Monza (1925 and 1927) and Venice (1928 and 1930). He left the cooperative in 1927 and opened an occasional collaboration with Pietro Melandri at the Faenza kiln where he continued to fire his ceramics until the early sixties. In the same year he was at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan, an experience he repeated in 1932 and 1936. In 1928 he began to collaborate with the "Melandri" factory in Faenza, a collaboration that continued until 1948. Modeler of typical female nude figures in terracotta and polychrome majolica he exhibited, obtaining a gold medal, at the National Exhibition of Pesaro in 1929 and at numerous other events in Milan. In the first half of the 1930s he performed for Gabriele d'Annunzio what can be considered his masterpiece: the group "Il Cantico del Sole", which the poet had placed in the Oratorio Dalmatico del Vittoriale. During the Second World War his studio in Milan was destroyed by a bombing and he moved to Varese. Between 1948 and the early fifties he presented some personal exhibitions at the "Il Cenacolo" gallery in Milan and participated in the exhibitions of the Permanente Milanaese. Active between Milan and Varese until the mid-1950s, he collaborated with the "Fornace Artistica". Some of his ceramics are preserved in the Castello Sforzesco Museum in Milan and in numerous Italian public and private collections. Enrico Mazzolani died in Milan in 1968.