Leonard Marconi
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1835|10|6}}
| birth_place = Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
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| death_place = Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
| nationality = Polish
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| field = Architecture, sculpture
| training = Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Accademia di San Luca in Rome
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| works = Façade of Galician Sejm
Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument in Kraków
Aleksander Fredro Monument in Wrocław
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Leonard Marconi (Warsaw, 6 October 1835 – 1 April 1899, Lemberg) was a Polish architect and sculptor active in Warsaw and in Austrian Galicia, notably Lemberg (Lwów, now Lviv, Ukraine).
Life
Leonard Marconi was born on 6 October 1835 in Warsaw to a well-known artistic family of Italian origin. He was the son of sculptor Ferrante Marconi, nephew of architect Henryk Marconi, and cousin of Leandro Marconi, a famed architect. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, then the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.
In 1861, he returned to Poland and opened an atelier in Warsaw. Fairly successful as a sculptor, in 1873 he was invited to Lwów (then in Austro-Hungarian Galicia) to become a professor at the Technical Academy ({{langx|pl|Akademia Techniczna}}), predecessor of the Lviv Polytechnic.
He died in Lviv on 1 April 1899 and is interred at Lychakiv Cemetery.{{cite news|url=https://culture.pl/pl/tworca/leonard-marconi |title=Leonard Marconi |access-date=2019-08-13}}
Gallery
File:Wrocław - Pomnik Aleksandra Fredry 01.JPG|Aleksander Fredro Monument, originally built in Lwów, moved in 1956 to Wrocław
File:University Lviv 2009 1.JPG|Façade of Galician Sejm; now seat of Lviv University. Marconi also decorated the interior.
File:6 Warszawa 213.jpg|Frédéric Chopin's epitaph in Warsaw's Holy Cross Church, where his heart reposes
File:Kosciuska.jpg|Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument on Kraków's Wawel Hill
File:GenThaddeusKosciuszko Detroit.jpg|Copy of Marconi's Kraków monument to Kościuszko, in Detroit, Michigan
See also
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Category:19th-century Polish sculptors
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Category:Sculptors from Austria-Hungary
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