Word: brera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Manzù taught at Milan's Brera Academy ("You can't teach art, only techniques"), now works in a whitewashed, high-ceilinged studio on the city's outskirts, specializes in the figures of dancers (see overleaf). He is also at work on bronze bas-reliefs for the "Door of Death" (opened only for funerals) in St. Peter's in Rome. While modern sculpture continues on its merry road to abstraction, Giacomo Manzù keeps to the realistic tradition. "I am a modernist," he says, "but I do not deny the past...
Napoleon-in-his-birthday-suit was sculptured by Antonio Canova in 1811; since 1859 he has greeted the startled visitors who enter the large courtyard of the Palazzo di Brera in Milan...