Benvenuti was born in Lucca and at present lives and works at Greve in the Chianti (Florence). In his hometown he studied under Mario Moschi and attended Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence, of which he was member. In the same city he also taught sculpture at the Lyceum. When Benvenuti arrived in Florence, Antonio…
Born in Montelupo Fiorentino (Florence), in 1940, when he was 15, he was hired by the prestigious Marinelli Foundry in Florence as a retoucher and wax modeler. He studied drawing with the most famous painters in the area and from 1959 to 1961 he attended the School of Nude of the Academy of Fine Arts…
Marco Bagnoli, born in Empoli in 1949, is one of the most significant exponents of the artistic trends that established themselves in Italy in the late seventies. His work is divided into complex installations that involve the environment with the help of multiple means of expression, from drawing to painting, from printing to sculpture. He…
The “artistic” birth of the French sculptor dates back to 2005, when for the first time she modeled a pile of clay in a sculpture studio in Rome. See also: Laure Boulay – Sculptures
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1882, he was the son of a Swiss emigrant from Lugano and a Spanish woman who separated when Josè was 8 years old. His father took him to Lugano, where he began his studies at the Cantonal School of Art. After participating in sculpture competitions in many European countries, he…
He was born in Perugia in 1901, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1932 he was in Rome, where he created a good portion of his sculptures, famous for the Foro Italico. Interesting is the story of the gigantic monument for the Duce, higher than the Statue of Liberty in New York,…
Born into very humble origins in San Piero a Sieve, in the countryside around Florence, Berti began as a designer at the ceramic maker Richard Ginori when he was 17. It was the writer Ugo Ojetti who, after seeing Berti’s clay works, convinced his father to enrol him at the Santa Croce art institute of…
Born in 1886 in a locality on the hills around Florence at Castel di Poggio, in the municipality of Fiesole, Bargelli started drawing at the age of twelve years. Before long his father, a farmer at the castle farms, took the decision to encourage his son’s artistic inclinations and enrolled him in an art school…
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