Powell asked Bernardoni, best known locally for helping save the Paramount Theatre, if he knew anything about “Victims of the Galveston Flood,” a sculpture by Pompeo Coppini, the artist best ...

And playing a lead role in the century-old drama was Pompeo Coppini, the Italian-born sculptor perhaps best known for the Alamo Cenotaph and the Littlefield Fountain at the University of Texas at ...

It is here that many of the plaster sketches and models by the school’s founder and namesake, Pompeo Coppini, are stored. “It’s all the bits and pieces of things he’s done,” said ...

A closeup of Victims of the Galveston Flood, a statue originally designed by celebrated sculptor Pompeo Coppini in 1904 that went missing. After the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed ...

In 2015 two works by the Italian-born but eminently Texan sculptor Pompeo Coppini—statues of Woodrow Wilson and Confederate president Jefferson Davis—were removed from the South Mall at the ...

John M. Bernardoni gets riled when he talks about the more than 8,000 people killed during Galveston’s 1900 Storm, the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history. His great-grandfather drowned when the ...

Maquettes from one of Pompeo Coppini's many public commissions throughout the state, the Littlefield Fountain on the University of Texas at Austin campus, are available for adoption during the ...

Pompeo Coppini, an Italian immigrant living in Chicago, was hired to sculpt the statues. The letters show how the Davis and other statues sparked controversy even then, with some university ...

With little discussion, sculptor Bonnie MacCleary got the Milam job, Waldine Tauch took the Moses Austin assignment and Tauch’s mentor Pompeo Coppini was awarded the big one - “a cenotaph to ...

Pompeo Coppini (1870-1957) left his mark on Texas. In addition to Victoria's "The Last Stand" Confederate monument, the Italian-born sculptor designed the Texas Centennial half dollar and the ...

From the Alamo to Dallas’s Fair Park, Pompeo Coppini left his monuments across Texas. Discover more about this amazing artist from Dr. Richard B. McCaslin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30 ...