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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...
...Manzu ranks with Marino Marini (TIME, Feb. 27) as Italy's top sculptor. The stocky, intensely religious Milanese never went to art school. A stucco worker, he turned to sculpture 20 years ago and found he could make a living teaching what he had never studied. Manzu hopes to complete his Vatican commission in four years, and that it will "resist the centuries." Says he: "I would give all my blood for this door...
...major pieces had been partly in spired, said Marini, by the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome's Pi azza del Campidoglio. But there was noth ing conventionally heroic about Marini's riders ; they were scared, not proud. They looked, indeed, very much like lonely, out size babies mounted bareback on broad, unbridled Mongolian ponies - going no where. Marini had carved them with mingled delicacy and deliberate awkward ness, sacrificing handsomeness to pathos...
...Marini could be brutal as well as touch ing. His little Kneeling Girl had the crude, ruined air of a primitive idol dredged up from a marsh. It was academically con vincing in some parts, arbitrarily distorted in others. Where pieces of the plaster mold had stuck to the bronze, it was leprously splotched. The head was as round and almost as blank as a cannon ball, but its blankness was part of Marini's intention: a human "universality" that classic features might have lacked. The Kneeling Girl's fat, soft hams and absurdly shriveled arms gave...
Those whose taste in sculpture had been formed by that of the Greeks and Renaissance Italians would find such works hard to take. For them, sculpture is primarily a celebration of human pride, grace and joy. Marini's sculpture celebrated humility, awkwardness and sorrow - plus dogged endurance...