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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Pomona
Image View:
Detail, head and face from the front
Creator:
Marino Marini (Italian sculptor, 1901-1980)
Location:
repository: Museo di Marino Marini (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
in the former church of San Pancrazio
GPS:
43.771836 11.249975
Date:
1945 (creation); cast after 1980 (other)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
bronze
Technique:
casting (process)
Subjects:
human figure; nude in art
Description:
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.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-MARINI-MM-P-A05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Pomona