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The Resurrection (La Resurrezione) is a bronze and brass sculpture by Pericle Fazzini in the Paul VI Audience Hall in Rome. [1] Intended to capture the anguish of 20th century mankind living under the threat of nuclear war, La Resurrezione depicts Jesus rising from a nuclear crater in the Garden of Gethsemane. Fazzini summarized the action of ...
It is dominated by an 800-quintal (80-tonne) bronze/copper-alloy [3] sculpture by Pericle Fazzini entitled La Resurrezione (Italian for The Resurrection). [4] [5] A smaller meeting hall, known as Synod Hall (Aula del Sinodo), is located in the building as well. This hall sits at the east end on a second floor.
Sandy's Butterfly, stabile/mobile, 1964, Sculpture Garden at Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Whale II, 1964 (1937), Sculpture Garden at Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Sidewalk Design, 1970, 1014-1018 Madison Avenue, New York City; World Trade Center Stabile (Bent Propeller), [destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 ...
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) referred to it as "one of New York's most photographed and readily recognizable buildings." The new building was designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, in September 2008. With its textured façade of glazed terra-cotta tile and fritted glass, the Jerome and Simona Chazen Building reflects ...
The city's parks have been described as the "greatest outdoor public art museum" in the United States. [1] More than 300 sculptures can be found on the streets and parks of the New York metropolitan area, many of which were created by notable sculptors such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, and John Quincy Adams Ward.
Louise Nevelson, Mayor Ed Koch and David Rockefeller at the opening of the plaza, 14 September 1978 (Archives of American Art). The space of what is today the Louise Nevelson Plaza had been previously occupied by German-American Insurance Company Building, designed by architects Hill & Stout in 1907 and completed in 1908. [9]
In 1931 he won a competition in Catania to design a monument to cardinal Dusmet; it 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 ...
Parducci was born to Giulio Parducci and Zelinda Petragnani in Buti, Italy, a small village near Pisa, and immigrated to New York City in the United States in 1904. At a young age, he was sponsored by heiress/sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and sent to art school. He attended the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design and Art