M. Tommasi Sculpture Italy 1960s - Italy 1960s

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Marcello Tommasi (Pietrasanta, January 29, 1928 - Lido di Camaiore, September 27, 2008) was an Italian sculptor and painter. Active mainly in Florence, Paris and Pietrasanta, he was considered "the symbolic heir of fifteenth-century Neoplatonism". Born into a family of artists (he was the son of the sculptor Leone Tommasi and brother of the well-known painter Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni), he graduated in Literature at the University of Florence, earning a doctorate in History of Art in 1966, with a thesis on Pietro Notch. Between 1948 and 1958 he frequented Pietro Annigoni's studio, drawing, painting and gradually turning his commitment to sculpture. Marcello Tommasi lived mainly between Florence and Versilia, often moving to his beloved Paris. Master of figurative art, he worked a lot both in the sacred and in the secular art, often taking inspiration from Greek myths. Its huge production includes hundreds of works including drawings, sketches, sculptures, paintings and frescoes. His works can be found in the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints at the Uffizi, in the National Museum of Warsaw, in the modern art galleries of Barcelona, Malaga, Piacenza and in that of the Vatican; at the Azorin Museum in Monóvar and at the Birthplace Museum of Michelangelo Buonarroti in Caprese Michelangelo; at the National Library of Paris, at the University of Pisa and at the Institute of Art History of the University of Florence. Numerous sculptures and bronze and marble groups by Tommasi are located in monumental churches, public buildings and important squares, in Italy and abroad. Just to name a few of the main ones: "Carolina", Paris, Gabriel Perné square "Ilaria", Charenton-le-Pont, at the entrance to the Town Hall "Fountain of Liberty", Paris, Léon Blum square Bronze door of the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena de 'Pazzi, Florence Bronze tiles for the door of the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, Montelupo Fiorentino "Apollo and Daphne", Florence, Piazza della Libertà Via Crucis, Pietrasanta, Cathedral of San Martino Bronze group, Pietrasanta, Piazza del Mercato New "San Giovanni Battista" and bronze panels for the portal, Pieve di Valdicastello Bronze door, Via Crucis and a fresco depicting the "Baptism of Jesus", La Spezia, Church of Saints John and Augustine "The prodigal son", bronze statue built in 1988 (unique example), Rossano (CS), Piazza SS Anargiri Via Crucis, built in 2003, Our Lady of Loreto Parish, Foxfield, Colorado (USA) Other paintings and frescoes adorn many Italian churches. "Carolina". The sculpture was created in 1968 and was placed in the Parisian square on 15 December 1972; on that occasion, Tommasi received the silver medal of the city of Paris at the town hall. The statue was placed in the square Gabriel-Pierné, a green space at the intersection with rue de la Seine and rue Mazarine, behind the chapel of the college of the Four Nations.

Age: 20th Century / 1901 - 2000

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

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