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Italy's sculpture is in the midst of a postFascist renaissance. Milan boasts two sculptors good enough to rival any now living: Giacomo Manzú (TIME, Sept. 25) and Marino Marini (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950). Rome has 37-year-old Pericle Fazzini, who is every bit as able. Last week Rome honored its own with a big Fazzini exhibition in the Barberini Palace...
...show pointed up Fazzini's great range. He is equally at home carving realistic portrait busts and academic church images, or turning out expressionistic figures cruelly twisted for dramatic effect...
...portraits are generally of Fazzini's friends, carved as gifts to the sitter. Unflattering, they have some of the force and bite of the best old Roman busts. His apparent method is to catch a friend's fleeting but typical expression, as the camera can, and emphasize it almost to the point of caricature...