| LC control no. | no2019165700 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Tortori, Egisto, 1829-1893 |
| Associated country | Italy |
| Associated place | Florence (Italy) |
| Birth date | 1829 |
| Death date | 1893 |
| Field of activity | Encaustic painting Mural painting and decoration Sculpture Scientific illustration Art and science Natural history in art Anatomy, Artistic Geography in art Seismology--Art Playwriting |
| Affiliation | Università di Firenze. Museo di storia naturale Fondazione scienza e tecnica |
| Profession or occupation | Painters Muralists Sculptors Dramatists Science illustrators |
| Found in | Le "tele cerate" di Egisto Tortori, 2018: title page (wax paintings) page 7 (mural painter) page 13 (1829-1893; artist using wax modeling; trained at Officina Ceroplastica dell'Imperiale, Regio Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale, currenly Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze; painter, sculptor and playwright; created a series of scientific animal and plant models, renderings of microscopic organisms) page 17 (1870-1876 commissioned by Istituto Tecnico Toscano [Florence] to create a set of 66 mural paintings depicting human and comparative anatomy, paleontology, plant anatomy and morphology, genealogy, seismology, physical geography) VIAF viewed November 7, 2019 (Tortori, Egisto; 1829-1893; science illustrator; sculptor) |
| Associated language | ita |
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