Biography

Italian Neoclassical sculptor. He was a pupil of Canova in Rome, and later became professor of sculpture in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. He was the teacher of - among others - Marco Casagrande.

He worked mainly in Venice. He was commissioned for a statue of an angel placed on top of the bell tower of San Marco in Venice. The statue was destroyed following the collapse of the bell tower in 1902. With his son Pietro he produced the tomb of Titian in the Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice.

His grandson Federico Zandomeneghi was a gifted Impressionist painter.