Damià Campeny

Damià Campeny and Strange (Mataró, 1771 - Barcelona, ​​1855) was a Catalan sculptor.

He studied at the School of the Barcelona Exchange, which would later professor and director of the sculpture section. He worked in the workshop of the sculptor Salvador Gurri Corominas and later to Nicolau Travé. He opened his own workshop, where he took orders for parishes Barcelona as San Vicente and Santiago and the Monastery of Montalegre San Bruno.

In 1797 he won a pension of the Board of Trade to go to Rome, where he met the sculptor Antoni Canova, and lived there for eighteen years during which he worked in the workshop of the Vatican and works are carried out as Hercules Farnesi and Neptune. He sent a series of sculptures in the Board of Trade.

He returned to Barcelona where he combines the work of a professor at Halle, where he had among his disciples Domènec Talarn i Ribot, with the realization of creative works. It was one of the scholars now called Catalan Royal Academy of Fine Arts of St. George (1850).

Ferdinand VII awarded the title of sculptor chamber of the King; named academic of San Fernando a Madrid, we offered him a professorship, which he accepted. He was also Academic School San Luis Zaragoza and Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, Valencia.

It is by Antoni Solà, the Catalan sculptor most important of Neoclassicism.

In Catalonia you can find his work at the MNAC, the Catalan Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Jorge and Víctor Balaguer Library Museum of Vilanova, among others.

King Ferdinand VII of Spain granted him the title of chamber sculptor of the king and was appointed academic of San Fernando, offering him a place of professor, who did not accept. In this other Academy of San Fernando was named academic of merit (in the section of sculpture) 9 of April of 1820.

Outstanding works:
Diana and the surprised nymphs in the bathroom by Acteón 1798-1799. Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of San Jorge. Barcelona
Diana in the bathroom 1803. Academy of San Fernando. Madrid
Sculpture Lucrecia died 1804. Lonja de Barcelona, ​​Barcelona
Cleopatra 1804-1810. National Museum of Art of Catalonia. Barcelona
Center of Table 1805. Parma (Italy)
Sacrifice of Calirroe 1805-1808. Deposited by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando at the Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of San Jorge. Barcelona
Eros of Centocelle (copy) 1805-1808. Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of San Jorge. Barcelona
Talía 1805-1808. Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of San Jorge. Barcelona
Vestal or Niobe c.1810. Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of San Jorge. Barcelona
Flora 1825. Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of San Jorge. Barcelona
La Clemencia or La Paz 1827. Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of St. George. Barcelona
The Congolese Faith 1810. Barcelona
Fuente del Viejo 1818. Barcelona
Source of Neptune 1832. Igualada
The centaur Nessos and Deyanira 1836. Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of St. George. Barcelona
Almogávar killing a French gentleman 1836. Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of St. George. Barcelona
Achilles pulling the bolt 1837. Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of St. George. Barcelona
Monument to Galceran Marquet 1851. Barcelona
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