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was considered a subversive because of his departure in 1848 for a Veneto close to independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after this work nothing more was commissioned to him in Magyar land. This forces him to return to his homeland again. In 1860 he began the project of a small temple near Cison di
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local nobles also called him to decorate their palaces, in Pest, Eger and other towns. The
Basilica of Esztergom In 1841 he was called by the Archbishop of Esztergom, Primate of Hungary, to decorate the city's basilica. In 1845 he married Mária Kovács, daughter of the tailor of the archbishopric of Eger.
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Monsignor Pyrker died and the following year the benefactor Bartolomeo Gera. Due to the uprisings of 1848, which soon involved the whole of Europe, he was reluctantly forced to leave Hungary after 15 years to return to the Italian peninsula, where, however, the first war of
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into a peasant family. Thanks to the generosity of the lords of Campea, Giovambattista, Vettore and
Bartolomeo Gera, he was enrolled at a very young age at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, a pupil of the master Luigi Zandomeneghi. In 1825 he won the 1st prize of the Brera Academy with the opera
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Cathedral, designed by the Hungarian architect JĂłzsef Hild. Here he created the first Italian school of sculpture in Hungary, where he called Venetian and Magyar stonemasons. During this period, many
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Angelica and Medoro. During this period he was commissioned to make a statue of
Pauline Bonaparte by the Marshal of the Empire Macdonald, Duke of Taranto, and a bust of Antonio Canova by his patron Bartolomeo Gera.
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