Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Pomona
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Pomona
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Image View:
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Overall view from front
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Creator:
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Marino Marini (Italian sculptor, 1901-1980)
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Location:
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repository: Museo di Marino Marini (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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in the former church of San Pancrazio
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GPS:
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+43.771836+11.249975
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Date:
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1945 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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bronze
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Technique:
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casting (process)
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Measurements:
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162 cm (height) x 66 cm (width) x 53 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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human figure; nude in art
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Description:
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The series of female nudes were inspired by Pomona, the Etruscan goddess of fertility, who became, for Marino, the symbol of a rural, harmonious and peaceful world, in other words, Mother Nature. During World War II he was in Locarno, Switzerland, where he befriended Giacometti, Fritz Wotruba and Hermann Haller. During this time he sculpted sensual, enigmatic female nudes, sometimes lacking head or arms in order to stress their resemblance to fragments of antique (Etruscan) sculpture. These included the Pomona series. In 1946 he returned to Milan. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-MARINI-MM-P2-A04
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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