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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.
Fazzini was born on 4 May 1913 at Grottammare, in the province of Ascoli Piceno in the Marche, to Vittorio Fazzini and Maria Alessandrini.As a boy he worked with his brothers in the family carpentry workshop, where he learned to carve wood.
The Pope put the sculpture, ... (Round Hall) of Pio-Clementine Museum. ... Museo storico vaticano) was founded in 1973 at the behest of Paul VI, [28] ...
A child kisses Pope Francis during the weekly general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican, August 21, 2024. Last year, Francis stated his desire to simplify the intricate and lengthy funeral ...
Most of the rooms are now used for the Vatican Collection of Modern Religious Art, inaugurated by Pope Paul VI in 1973. The collection includes about 600 accumulated works of painting, sculpture and graphic art; donations of contemporary Italian and foreign artists and includes works by Paul Gauguin , Marc Chagall , Paul Klee , Salvador Dalí ...
Two animal rights activists briefly stormed Pope Francis’ general audience in the Vatican on Wednesday, in a protest against bullfighting.
The women walked down an aisle in the Vatican's Paul VI hall holding signs and wearing white t-shirts with slogans such as "Bullfighting is a sin" and "Stop blessing corridas," the Spanish term ...