Giuseppe Valenti

Statue of Queen Victoria in Valletta, Malta

Giuseppe Valenti was a Sicilian sculptor who was active in the late 19th century.

Valenti was born in Palermo,[1] he was the son of Salvatore Valenti [de], who was also a sculptor and wood carver.[2] His work includes a seated statue of Saint Publius at St Paul's Cathedral in Mdina, Malta (1885),[3] a terracotta bust of Governor Lintorn Simmons at the Casino Notabile (1887),[1] and a marble statue of Queen Victoria in Valletta (1891).[3] The latter is one of the artist's best-known works.[2][4] He also sculpted funerary monuments and various works for Palermo churches.[2]

It has also been speculated that the sculpted stonework of the Casino Notabile's exterior might have been the work of Valenti.[4]

  1. ^ a b Camilleri, Anton (2019). Monumenti u Busti fil-Gżejjer Maltin (in Maltese). Book Distributors Ltd. p. 208. ISBN 9789995799977.
  2. ^ a b c "Valenti Salvatore". Archivio Biografico Comunale – Comune di Palermo (in Italian). Archived from the original on 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b Cini, George (30 March 2011). "Queen gets good scrub in Valletta". Times of Malta. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020.
  4. ^ a b Gauci, Matthew (2009). "New light on Webster Paulson and his architectural idiosyncrasies" (PDF). Proceedings of History Week: 137–149. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2017.