Bruno Giorgi (13 August 1905,

Mococa Mococa is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 68,980 (2020 est.) in an area of 855 km². The elevation is 645 m. The local government is made up of a mayor (in Brazil, '' Prefeito'') and a municipal council ...

– 7 September 1993,

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) was a Brazilian sculptor, who worked within Brazilian modernism. He was from a small town in the interior of São Paulo state called

. Although born in Brazil he spent much of his youth in Europe as his family returned to Italy when he was age six, and he did not return to Brazil until 1939. His works are displayed at several national sites.

List of works

* ' (1959), public art sculpture in front of the

Palácio do Planalto The Palácio do Brazilian Highlands, Planalto () in Brasília is the official workplace of the president of Brazil.

Praça dos Três Poderes Praça dos Três Poderes () or Three Powers Plaza (more idiomatically ''Three Branches Plaza'') is a plaza in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. The name is derived from the presence of the three branches of government around the plaza: the Exec ...

, Brasília, Brazil * ' (1968), public art sculpture in the lake of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, Brasília, Brazil * ''Escultura'' (1970), public sculpture, Palácio dos Bandeirantes, São Paulo, Brazil * '' O Flautista'', sculpture, Palácio do Planalto, Brasília, Brazil; destroyed during protests

References

External links

* Bruno Giorgi (Wikipedia page in Portuguese has more information)
Works of Bruno GiorgiSculptures by Bruno Giorgi
1905 births 1993 deaths 20th-century Brazilian sculptors 20th-century Brazilian male artists Brazilian people of Italian descent People from Mococa fr:Bruno Giorgi {{Brazil-sculptor-stub