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Giacomo Manzu
Giacomo Manzù (Giacomo Manzoni)
Giacomo Manzu
Giacomo Manzù (Giacomo Manzoni)
Giacomo Manzù, pseudonym of Giacomo Manzoni (22 December 1908 – 17 January 1991), was an Italian sculptor.
Manzù was born in Bergamo.
His father was a shoemaker. Other than a few evening art classes, he was self-taught in sculpture, although he later became a professor himself.
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He started working with wood during his military service in Veneto in 1928; later, after a short stay in Paris, he moved to Milan, where architect Giovanni Muzio commissioned him the decoration of the chapel of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (1931–1932).
In 1933 he exhibited a series of busts at the Triennale di Milano, which granted him national popularity. The following year he held a personal exhibition in Rome with the painter Aligi Sassu, with whom he shared a studio.
In 1939 Manzù started a series of bronze bas-reliefs about the death of Jesus Christ; the works, exh