Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Sculptor, of Rome. Giovanni Maria Benzoni executed several statues of the Virgin for Catholic churches in Ireland and was one of the sculptors engaged to execute the bas-reliefs on the Wellington Monument, Phoenix Park.(1) His statue of Pope Pius IX which was exhibited at the Dublin International Exhibition of 1863 was purchased by Cardinal Cullen for Holy Cross College, Clonliffe.(2)



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(1) DB 1, 1 Mar 1859, 33.
(2) IB 24, 1 May 1882, ?.


4 work entries listed in chronological order for BENZONI, GIOVANNI MARIA *#


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD UPPER, NO. 166 (TRANQUILLA CONVENT)
Date: 1858
Nature: Statue of Madonna
Refs: Clonliffe College Archives MS p 131/2

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1859
Nature: Finishes John Hogan's relief after Hogan's death in 1858 with John Valentine Hogan.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Mar 1859, 33;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 23.



Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, JAMES'S STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: 'At the left of the Lady Chapel stands a colossal statue of the Virgin, in Carrara marble, executed by Benzoni, and the gift of the ladies of the parish.'
Refs: George Henry Bassett, Kilkenny City and County (1884), 41

Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, CATHEDRAL PLACE, CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Statue of Virgin, presented to cathedral by Rt. Hon. William Monsell, MP.
Refs: M. Lenihan, Limerick; its history and antiquities (1866), 682; John Fleming, St John's Cathedral, Limerick (1987), 57 (illus.).