DOI Heft:
No. 247 (October 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21208#0091
Studio-Talk
BUST OF DONNA ADELAIDE MARAINI
BY ANTONIO MARAINI
talent and unflagging perseverance that his name
is now found in the front rank of contemporary
German sculptors. W. E. W.
FLORENCE. — Of the younger Italian
artists the name of Antonio Maraini has
been brought lately into particular notice
by the fact that he has won a competition
with his model of a statue in memory of the great
tragic actress Adelaide Ristori. The competition
was international, and amongst the fifty artists
who competed were many well-known sculptors.
Maraini, who was competing for the first time,
received the favourable vote of all the judges. His
monument is very original in design. Two columns
of marble, standing on a pediment of rough stones,
and supporting enormous bronze masks, form the
figure of Ristori as Medea. The monument is to
be put up at her birthplace—Cividale del Friuli.
Maraini began his career as a sculptor only a
few years ago, exhibiting a statue of Perseus—his
first work—at the Universal Exhibition at Brussels,
in 1910. With this he won the silver medal.
After this success he worked under Zanelli at the
beautiful bas-relief of the “ Altar of the Fatherland ”
SKETCH MODEL FOR MONUMENT TO RISTORI
BY ANTONIO MARAINI
69
at Rome last year, and the Perseus and two other
of his statues were chosen for the exhibition at
Venice. His bust of his aunt Donna Adelaide
Maraini, herself a noted sculptress, was shown at
the recent Secession Exhibition in Rome. In
trying to revive the use of stone, Maraini has done
successful work in tufa and travertin, and the study
of the various materials for sculpture and the neces-
sary technique fit for their peculiar characters is,
for him, the subject of continual experiment.
Y. P.
PARIS.—One of the most interesting
exhibitions of the past season was that
of a collection of Impressionist works
shown at the Manzi Joyant Galleries,
rue de la Ville l’Eveque, the largest and best
arranged exhibition rooms in Paris. We have seen
very many examples of Impressionism these last
few years, but what is interesting for art-lovers is to
choose from among them those which are of the
BUST OF DONNA ADELAIDE MARAINI
BY ANTONIO MARAINI
talent and unflagging perseverance that his name
is now found in the front rank of contemporary
German sculptors. W. E. W.
FLORENCE. — Of the younger Italian
artists the name of Antonio Maraini has
been brought lately into particular notice
by the fact that he has won a competition
with his model of a statue in memory of the great
tragic actress Adelaide Ristori. The competition
was international, and amongst the fifty artists
who competed were many well-known sculptors.
Maraini, who was competing for the first time,
received the favourable vote of all the judges. His
monument is very original in design. Two columns
of marble, standing on a pediment of rough stones,
and supporting enormous bronze masks, form the
figure of Ristori as Medea. The monument is to
be put up at her birthplace—Cividale del Friuli.
Maraini began his career as a sculptor only a
few years ago, exhibiting a statue of Perseus—his
first work—at the Universal Exhibition at Brussels,
in 1910. With this he won the silver medal.
After this success he worked under Zanelli at the
beautiful bas-relief of the “ Altar of the Fatherland ”
SKETCH MODEL FOR MONUMENT TO RISTORI
BY ANTONIO MARAINI
69
at Rome last year, and the Perseus and two other
of his statues were chosen for the exhibition at
Venice. His bust of his aunt Donna Adelaide
Maraini, herself a noted sculptress, was shown at
the recent Secession Exhibition in Rome. In
trying to revive the use of stone, Maraini has done
successful work in tufa and travertin, and the study
of the various materials for sculpture and the neces-
sary technique fit for their peculiar characters is,
for him, the subject of continual experiment.
Y. P.
PARIS.—One of the most interesting
exhibitions of the past season was that
of a collection of Impressionist works
shown at the Manzi Joyant Galleries,
rue de la Ville l’Eveque, the largest and best
arranged exhibition rooms in Paris. We have seen
very many examples of Impressionism these last
few years, but what is interesting for art-lovers is to
choose from among them those which are of the