Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christendom's greatest monuments-St. Peter's in Rome-is never quite completed. Among the best present-day artists working to finish it is a self-taught, 45-year-old sculptor from Milan named Giacomo Manzù. Four years ago, Manzù won a competition to do bronze bas-reliefs for the "Doorway of Death" (opened only for funerals) at one side of the Basilica. Now his scale study is at last complete (see cut), and he hopes that by devoting all his working time to the project he will have the doors themselves done in two more...
...that stultifies most contemporary ecclesiastical art. Manzù's ambition is to create something worthy not only of St. Peter's but also "of the time in which we live." The incisive yet graceful style of the bas-reliefs is distinctly his own. Perhaps no other living sculptor could have put so much sense of space and air into such deliberately low relief. His art, as one Italian critic put it, "is like a veil of poetry breathed over a bronze background...
...Sculptor Manzù, who began his career as a stucco worker, is as direct as his work is subtle. "I am religious, yes," Manzù says with feeling, "but I'm not a religious artist-I expect to carve all kinds of things. You can't limit art to religion any more than you can limit religion itself, or life . . . In sculpture my greatest inspiration is the ancient Greeks." Drawing a deep breath, he adds: "I wish I could be as big as they...
...Bronze model by Swedish-American Sculptor Carl Milles, now at the Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
...shade, and some flamboyant 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...