Pericle Fazzini
Pericle Fazzini | |
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 La Sibilla (the Sibyl) | |
| Born | 4 May 1913 Grottammare, Le Marche, Italy |
| Died | 4 December 1987 (Age 74) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Education | Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma |
| Website | periclefazzini |
Pericle Fazzini (4 May 1913 – 4 December 1987) was an Italian painter and sculptor.[1] His large work, La Resurrezione, is installed in the Aula Paolo VI in the Vatican City in Rome.[2][3]
Life[]
Fazzini was born on 4 May 1913 at Grottammare, in the province of Ascoli Piceno in the Marche, to Vittorio Fazzini and Maria Alessandrini. As a boy he worked with his brothers in the family carpentry workshop, where he learned to carve wood. In 1930, with the help of the poet , he moved to Rome to study at the Scuola libera del nudo.[4][5]
In 1931, he won a competition in Catania to design a monument to cardinal Dusmet; it was never made. In 1932 he took part in a competition for the of the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, the Italian ministry of arts and education, and with his low-relief Uscita dall'arca ("leaving the ark") won a two-year bursary.[4]
He died in Rome on 4 December 1987.[4]
Works[]
- Monument to Padre Pio, Piazza Padre Pio, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG)
- Resurrezione, Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican;
- Tabernacolo, , Rome
- , Ancona
References[]
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- ^ Fazzini, Pericle (Italian painter and sculptor, 1913-1987). Union List of Artist Names Online. J. Paul Getty Trust. Accessed December 2018.
- ^ [AP] (5 December 1987). Pericle Fazzini, 74, a Sculptor for Vatican. The New York Times. Accessed December 2018.
- ^ Piero Pacini (2003). Fazzini, Pericle. Grove Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (subscription required).
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Valerio Rivosecchi (1995). Fazzini, Pericle (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 45. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed January 2015.
- ^ Pericle Fazzini. Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Accessed December 2018.
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