1849 - 1930

Sculptor and architect. He was born in Pavia and trained at the Brera Academy in Milan under Abbondio Sangiorgio. At the age of seventeen he exhibited his first work, The Vintagers (1866), which was acquired by the Società di Belle Arti and placed in the Palazzo Reale in Milan. His public statues include the Memorial to Vittorio Emanuele II at Intra, and the Monument to the Fallen at Paderno Dugnano. He won a gold medal for his Amore Accieca [Cupid Teasing Venus or Love is Blind] at the 1875 Esposizione Fiorentina. Two important works by him are in the Museo Revoltella in Trieste. His sculptures, which were much exhibited in the international exhibitions of Europe and the Americas, are sometimes in a poeticizing late neo-classical style, but Barcaglia also embraced a moderate degree of verismo. Source: A. Panzetta (1990).