Word: moretti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary MacKnight also had a sculptor to suggest: tousle-haired, thickset Giuseppe Moretti, of Siena, Italy. Faces beamed around the luncheon table, for Sculptor Moretti, at that time a tombstone designer for New England granite concerns, was the first artist of any ability to plump for Alabama marble as a medium for sculpture, insisted loudly that it was quite the equal of Carrara...
...award of the commission to Sculptor Moretti was followed by weeks of haggling over models. Up for debate was the question of whether Birmingham's Vulcan should be ugly and misshapen, as mythology insists, or a handsome Hermes as many Alabamians insisted. The ugly Vulcan won. Plaster casts were made during the winter and the hulking Vulcan, 50 ft. 6 in. from head to toe, was cast by the James R. McWane Foundry. The finished product weighed 60 tons...
...Sculptor Moretti who died last year would not recognize his Vulcan when WPA and Kiwanis are through with him. Glittering with aluminum paint and with his damaged arm repaired, he will stand on a 123-ft. pedestal on the mountaintop, bathed in floodlights and with a neon light flickering from the hammer in his hand. On a clear day farmers should be able to see him 50 miles away...