LEONARDI, GIUSEPPE *#

Sculptor, of Rome, active in the 1830s and 1840s, who, in partnership with an unknown Italian master carver, executed the monument to Archbishop John Thomas Troy (d. 1838) in the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin.(1)   He is presumably the same person as the sculptor named Leonardi who carved the high altar and canopy for Tuam Cathedral (RC) in the 1830s.(2)   In 1844 he contracted to execute an altar and tabernacle for the Earl of Fingall, presumably for the new chapel at Killeen Castle.(3)

References

(1) Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 52(illus.).
(2) Report on Metropolitan RC Cathedral, Tuam, 31 Dec 1837, Royal Irish Academy, Ordnance Survey MS Box 28.
(3) Contract between Giuseppe Leonardi, Foro Romano 32, Rome, and Lord Fingall, 3 May 1844, in Archives of Irish College, Rome, CUL/NC/4/1844/27. 

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Building:	CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, ST MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL (RC)
Date:	1823p
Nature:	Monument to Archbishop Thomas Troy (d.1838). Executed in collaboration with an unknown Italian master carver.
Refs:	Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 52(illus.).

Building:	CO. GALWAY, TUAM, CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION (RC)
Date:	1836
Nature:	Marble high altar and canopy, 'just finished at Rome'.
Refs:	Catholic directory (1836), 141; 'Report on the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Tuam', 31 Dec 1837 (RIA Ordnance Survey MS, Box 28)

Building:	CO. MEATH, KILLEEN CASTLE
Date:	1844
Nature:	Altar and tabernacle, presumably for chapel at Killeen Castle.
Refs:	Contract between Giuseppe Leonardi, Foro Romano 32, Rome, and Lord Fingall, 3 May 1844, in Archives of Irish College, Rome, CUL/NC/4/1844/27.