Pericle fazzini biography definition

- PERICLE FAZZINI PAINTER

Pericle Fazzini was an Italian sculptor and painter. He was born in Grottammare in 1913.

He approaches sculpture in his father's carving workshop and, on the advice of the poet Mario Rivosecchi, is sent to Rome in 1930 to study at the Scuola Libera del Nudo at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

In 1931, he won the competition for the funeral monument of Cardinal Dusmet in Catania.

The following year, he participated in the competition for the National Artistic Pension, obtaining a scholarship with which he maintained a studio in Rome for the next three years.

In 1935, Pericle Fazzini participated in the II Quadriennale di Roma, winning an award for the high reliefs Danza and Tempesta.

In 1938, he opened his own studio on Via Margutta, where he would remain for his entire life, and joined the artistic movement Corrente, which gathered around the Milanese art magazine of the same name. In the same year, he participated in the XXI Biennale d