Word: fazzini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aside $8,500 for "ornamental stone" to decorate their new $1,200,000 high school, they did not specify exactly what they wanted. The choice was left to the school's architect, who decided on a piece from one of Italy's leading modern sculptors, Pericle Fazzini (TIME, May 7, 1951). But when the packing case arrived from Rome last year and the school officials got their first look, they gasped in pained surprise. Inside was a 6½ft. expressionistic bronze statue of a nude, egg-headed boy, braced against a gnarled stump to rescue a fawn...
When the news of Bristol's rejection reached Rome, it set off an explosion in the Via Margutta studio of Sculptor Fazzini. Producing photos of Italy's President Luigi Einaudi admiring a clay reproduction of the statue. Fazzini indignantly snorted: "If it's good enough for the President of Italy, it should be good enough for a U.S. high school." Bristling with indignation, Sculptor Fazzini pointed out that he had done the altar columns for the new American College in Rome, had made a 10-ft statue of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, America's first saint...
...ceramic figures of working girls by light-fingered Leoncillo Leonardi outshone more pretentious sculptures. As best Italian painter, the jury picked Giuseppe Santomaso for his pleasantly decorative abstractions, which resemble swatches of colored silk and black thread in a stiff breeze. Prize for best Italian sculptor went to Pericle Fazzini (who makes a living by conservative church commissions), for some mildly sexy contortionists in wood and bronze...
...current Margutta Who's Who would include Sculptor Pericle Fazzini (TIME, March 10, 1952), who holds court in his ground-floor studio; Bulgarian-born Assen Peikov, a society portrait painter who affects a Mongol-style mustache; brunette Novella Parigini, a great friend of Errol Flynn's, who paints sexy calendar girls and looks like one; dignified, 70-year-old Giuseppe Carosi, who lives with his cats in a genteel Victorian apartment; lean, intense Communist Sculptor Nino Franchina, who does abstractions in metals...
...Nowadays Fazzini has little time for such expressionistic experiments. Last week he was hard at work in Rome supervising casting on his current project, a 7,000,000-lira traditional-style altarpiece in honor of Mother Cabrini for the Church of Saint Eugenius. "The church is still attached to tradition," he said. "I made some concessions...