Dear readers Numismatica Ranieri and lovers of world of numismatics, in this article we will talk about the medals of Publio Morbiducci and famous artist of the Italian school to celebrate an event dedicated to him. It is held at the Academy of San Luca in Rome, from 3 November to 8 December, the exhibition "Publius Morbiducci (1889-1963) / paintings – sculptures – medals".
The event, promoted by the Department of Cultural Policy – the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, in collaboration with the The Accademia di San Lucaintended to illustrate the entire span of Publio Morbiducci, a member of the Accademia di San Luca, from 1937, and the artist is significant in the landscape of Italian art and culture between the two wars. Have been brought together for the first time in a path monographic works of painting, sculpture, medals, drawings and graphics: from the beginning, in the climate of the Roman Secession in 1913 and first tests at the School of Art of the Medal, the work of the first world war, in which the interests of youth in the ways of the avant-garde blend to the study of tradition, and the recovery of the classics, to the drawings and sketches for the celebratory monuments, built between the end of the twenties and into the next decade, up to the sculptures from the Fifties, which attest, in a personal computing to the classicist, the push for the renewal through new forms of expression.
The initiative has held considerable interest for Rome, where Morbiducci, he worked for his entire life by creating a series of monuments of particular importance such as the monument to the Division of Porta Pia, the monument to the Sailors perished in the sinking of the Submarine Veniero at the Verano, the sculptures of the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, Eur, the Discobolo in the Stadium of Marbles.
The production of Morbiducci was missing today of an appropriate presentation to the public, though was included in exhibitions significant for the diagnosis and classification of the art and culture of the twenties and Thirties (among other Modern Art in Italy 1915-1935, Florence, 1967, edited by C. L. Ragghianti, The body in the body. Tabs for the Italian sculpture, 1920-40. Spoleto, 1990, edited by B. Mantura; the Italian Sculpture of the early twentieth century, Rome – Mesola 1992, edited by V. Sgarbi).
Of particular interest among the works exhibited, the group of thirteen paintings, dated 1915, and almost unpublished, that constitute a research moment of singular originality of expression of the young artist, involved in the climate of the renewal promoted by the exhibitions of the Roman Secession. It is an experience that explores the possibility plastics colour, according to an experiment similar to the one carried out at the same time in the sculpture and, in particular, in the series of Masks, exhibited at the exhibition of the Secession of 1915. The type of research that is similar to the one carried out more or less at the same time from other artists, including Roberto Melli, mate Morbiducci at the School of Art of the Medal.
Among the other works presented are pointed to the series of drawings that accompany the implementation of some monuments, such as the one of the Sailors perished in the sinking of the submarine Veniero (1929), in which it is clear that the capacity to take and rework on the part of the artist according to his personal sense of the central themes of the figurative culture of the time, making original interpreter of popular feeling and together will celebratory official.
The artist has given the medals, original compositions for the conception and design of the plastic; very well known, among other things, the minting for Air Cruise the Atlantic, to the Fair of Tripoli, to the V Centenary of the birth of Melozzo da Forlì, to the death of Italo Balbo, for the twenty years of the Fascist Era. Among the medals produced in the post-war period to remember that a memorial for The Holy Year of 1950. As well as in exhibitions numismatic, Morbiducci was present in important artistic events in Italy and abroad, where Museums and galleries to keep his works.
The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue, published by the publisher De Luca, with texts by the curator Nicoletta Cardano, Fabio Fiorani and Anna's be Honest, of the National Institute for Graphics, and Rosa Maria Villani.
Where to find the medals of Publio Morbiducci
Inside our online shop numismatic and consulting the archive of Numismatics Ranieri is possible to find many examples of medals of Morbiducci made in time. Here is an example by clicking on the following link: Archive Medal
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