| Ernesto Biondi |
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| 1855 births | |
| biondi, ernesto | |
| 1917 deaths | |
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Biondi was a student of Girolamo Masini at the Accademia Di San Luca in Rome. Almost since its inception 19th and early 20th Century Italian sculpture has been derided and dismissed outside Italy. Lorado Taft the preeminent American sculpture critic of his day as well as a respected sculptor wrote in 1917, :Most of us think of modern Italian sculpture as hopeless beyond redemption. We recall the plastic jokes, the brazen indecencies, the chiseled vulgarities . . . . . . . . we shudder at memories of the Campo Santa of Genoa and of recent monuments all over Italy, and we dismiss the subject. Taft then goes on to discuss Biodi and his work, ''Saturnalia'' 1899 . :Biondi's ''Saturnalia'' epitomized cruelly. but not unjustly, the trend of contemporary sculpture in Italy, with all its misplaced effort and its incredible, if not to say fiendish, dexterity. . . . . . . This disgustingly facile performance seemed to this writer like a kind of 'wake' over the corpse of a once noble national art which once produced the ''Augustus'' and later the ''Saint George'' and the ''Moses''; which has long been dead but which men refuse to bury. Needless to say, Taft was not a fan of Biondi's work. A recent reappraisal of this work , Biondi's and his contemporaries is currently under way- tending to look at the sculpture of this era in a more favorable light than that which Taft shed on it. =Selected Works==
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