Pericle Fazzini (4 May 1913 – 4 December 1987) was an Italian painter and sculptor. His large work, '' La Resurrezione,'' is installed in the

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in the Vatican City in Rome.

Life

Fazzini was born on 4 May 1913 at Grottammare, in the province of Ascoli Piceno in the

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, to Vittorio Fazzini and Maria Alessandrini. As a boy he worked with his brothers in the family carpentry workshop, where he learned to carve wood. In 1930, with the help of the poet

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, he moved to Rome to study at the

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. In 1931, he won a competition in

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to design a monument to cardinal Dusmet; it was never made. In 1932 he took part in a competition for the Pensionato Artistico Nazionale of the

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, the Italian ministry of arts and education, and with his low-relief ''Uscita dall'arca'' ("leaving the ark") won a two-year bursary. He died in Rome on 4 December 1987.

Works

* ''Monument to Padre Pio'', Piazza Padre Pio, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG) * ''

Resurrezione ''La resurrezione'' (''The Resurrection''), HWV 47, is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, set to a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1652–1728). Capece was court poet to Queen Marie Casimire of Poland, who was living in exile in Rome ...

'', Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican; * ''Tabernacolo'', Villa Nazareth, Rome * '' Monumento alla Resistenza'', Ancona

References

1913 births 1987 deaths 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male sculptors 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters People from the Province of Ascoli Piceno {{Italy-sculptor-stub