Pericle Fazzini

Background

Fazzini was born on 4 May 1913 at Grottammare, in the province of Ascoli Piceno in the Marche, to Vittorio Fazzini and Maria Alessandrini.

Career

He is notable for works such as Louisiana Resurrezione in the Paul VI Audience Hall. In 1930, with the help of the poet Mario Rivosecchi, he moved to Rome to study at the Scuola libera del nudo. He died in Rome on 4 December 1987.

Achievements

• In 1931 he won a competition in Catania to design a monument to cardinal Dusmet. lieutenant was never made. In 1932 he took part in a competition for the Pensionato Artistico Nazionale of the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, the Italian ministry of arts and education, and with his low-relief Uscita dall"arca ("leaving the ark") won a two-year bursary.