@prefix rdf: . @prefix dbpedia: . @prefix ns2: . dbpedia:Frank_Rusconi rdf:type ns2:LivingPeople , ns2:AustralianSculptors . @prefix owl: . dbpedia:Frank_Rusconi owl:sameAs . @prefix ns4: . dbpedia:Frank_Rusconi owl:sameAs ns4:Frank_Rusconi . @prefix foaf: . @prefix ns6: . dbpedia:Frank_Rusconi foaf:page ns6:Frank_Rusconi . @prefix dbpprop: . dbpedia:Frank_Rusconi dbpprop:reference . @prefix rdfs: . dbpedia:Frank_Rusconi rdfs:label "Frank Rusconi"@en . @prefix dbpedia-owl: . dbpedia:Frank_Rusconi dbpedia-owl:thumbnail ; dbpprop:abstract "Frank Rusconi (20 August 1874 \u2013 21 May 1964) was a quarry owner and monumental of Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia. He was born at Araluen near Braidwood, New South Wales, the son of a Swiss goldminer and monumental mason. After his mother's death, the family returned to Switzerland while Frank was a child. At age 15, he was apprenticed in first Italy and then Switzerland in the marble trade. Rusconi returned to New South Wales in 1901. he worked with his brother and father near Orange, New South Wales in a marble quarry they had discovered and developed. He settled at Gundagai in 1905. He died nearly 60 years later in nearby Cootamundra having been an active member of the Gundagai community since settling there. Notable works are: the Dog on the Tuckerbox - a bronze work and not his normal medium the Marble Masterpiece, a miniature building constructed of 20,948 individual pieces of marble. Work commenced in 1910 and was completed 28 years later. The work is on display in the Gundagai tourist office. tombstones are at Gundagai, Orange, Cudal and Galong cemeteries; the largest and most dramatic is a pair of white marble monuments to the Ryan family at Galong, two war memorials at Gundagai the marble altar in Tumut Catholic church Image:Galong Cemetery Rusconi Angel for child. jpg|A monument for a child at Galong Image:Gundagai cemetery Rusconi Angel. jpg|Monument at Gundagai Image:Gundagai cemetery Rusconi monument. jpg|Monument at Gundagai Image:GundagaiCenotaph. jpg|Cenotaph at Gundagai, designed and built by Rusconi Image:DogonTuckerbox. jpg|The Dog on the Tuckerbox Image:Gundagai Rusconi's Marble Masterpiece 001. jpg|Rusconi's \"Marble masterpiece\" Image:Gundagai Rusconi's Marble Masterpiece 006. jpg|Detail of masterpiece Image:Gundagai museum Rusconi's tools. jpg|Tools used by Rusconi to carve his masterpiece, now in Gundagai Historical Museum Image:Gundagai Rusconi's House 'Araluen'. jpg|Rusconi's house in Gundagai, 'Araluen' on Sheridan Street near the cenotaph Image:Gundagai cemetery Rusconi graves. jpg|Rusconi's own grave at Gundagai cemetery"@en ; rdfs:comment "Frank Rusconi (20 August 1874 \u2013 21 May 1964) was a quarry owner and monumental of Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia. He was born at Araluen near Braidwood, New South Wales, the son of a Swiss goldminer and monumental mason. After his mother's death, the family returned to Switzerland while Frank was a child. At age 15, he was apprenticed in first Italy and then Switzerland in the marble trade. Rusconi returned to New South Wales in 1901."@en ; foaf:depiction . @prefix skos: . dbpedia:Frank_Rusconi skos:subject . @prefix ns11: . dbpedia:Frank_Rusconi skos:subject ns11:Swiss_Australians , ns11:Australian_sculptors , . @prefix ns12: . dbpedia:Frank_Rusconi dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection ns12:Frank_Rusconi . @prefix yago: . yago:Frank_Rusconi owl:sameAs dbpedia:Frank_Rusconi .