Rizzoli & Isles Rizzoli & Isles Rizzoli & Isles is a TNT television series starring Angie Harmon as police detective Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles. The one-hour drama is based on the series of "Rizzoli & Isles" novels by Tess Gerritsen. It premiered on July 12, 2010, and aired 105 episodes in seven seasons, concluding on September 5, 2016. The series' backstory is inspired by the Maura Isles/Jane Rizzoli series of novels by Tess Gerritsen. Rizzoli appears in the series' first novel, "The Surgeon", and Isles is introduced in the second, "The Apprentice", which serves as the
Pasquale Rizzoli Pasquale Rizzoli Pasquale Rizzoli (9 April 1871, Bologna–30 January 1953) was an Italian sculptor. He was born to a family of wealthy merchants and was married to Adelinda Serra Zanetti in May, 1896. Rizzoli was a student of Salvino Salvini at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Bologna. In addition to his most famous bronze sculpture that, made in 1903, which is found in the Parco della Montagnola in Bologna, many of his works are in the cemetery Certosa of Bologna. Rizzoli’s artistic style is characterized by a mix of realism, with an interest in the effects of light, and