Renato Marino Mazzacurati

Renato Marino Mazzacurati
Born	1907 Galliera, Italy
Died	1969 Parma, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Field	Painting, Sculpture
Training	Scuola romana
Movement	Contemporary
Works	Imperatori e Imperatrici (Emperors & Empresses) Monumento al Partigiano (Monument to the Partisan) Lottatori (Wrestlers) Ritratto di Scipione (Portrait of Scipione)
Patrons	Roberto Longhi

Renato Marino Mazzacurati (born 1907), was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola romana (Roman School), of eclectic styles and able within his career span to represent the artistic currents of Cubism, Expressionism, and Realism, thus showing a distinctive open mind towards Art and its multiple aspects. In fact, he believed that Art could sustain social functions.^[1]

Biography

Moved to Rome in 1926, he befriended Scipione, Mario Mafai and Raphaël, creating with them an artistic movement called by Italian scholar Roberto Longhi the Scuola di via Cavour or Scuola Romana.^[2]

In 1931 Mazzacurati went to Paris, where he became particularly interested in the works of Rodin, Matisse and Picasso, as both his pictorial production (between 1931–1935) and his sculptures show, with their expressionism that forces the physical structure (e.g., see Ritratto del conte N. (Portrait of Count N.), 1936) or deforms it into monstrously grotesque figures (e.g., see Imperatori e Imperatrici (Emperors & Empresses), 1942–1943). Subsequently, Mazzacurati tended towards a cruder realism, joining in 1947 the "Fronte Nuovo delle Arti". His other work include Monumento al Partigiano (Monumento to the Partisan) in Parma (1964) and the Monumento alle quattro giornate (Monument to the Four days of Naples, in Naples.^[3]

See also

• Scuola Romana
• Expressionism
• Realism
• Cubism

Notes

1. ^ Cf. F. Negri Arnoldi, Storia dell'Arte Moderna (History of Modern Art), Milan 1990. See also Biographical Notes, on Scuolaromana.it. ^{Accessed 28/05/2011}
2. ^ Between 1933 and 1934, Mazzacurati helped and supported Italian most famous Naïve painter, Antonio Ligabue.[1]
3. ^ Among Mazzacurati's other work, to be noted are also Monumento ai caduti di tutte le guerre in Sansepolcro, and the mosaic of Saint Barbara in the eponymous Church of Saint Barbara, Colleferro. Cf. also F.N. Arnoldi, Storia dell'Arte Moderna, Milan (1990).

Bibliography

• G.C. Argan, Marino Mazzacurati on "Atti dell'Accademia Nazionale di S. Luca", Rome 1965-66
• M. Maccari, Mazzacurati, catalogue, Accademia Nazionale di S. Luca, Rome 1966
• V. Martinelli, "Scipione e Mazzacurati pittore", on Studi in onore di V. Viale, Turin 1967
• Marino Mazzacurati, catalogue by the Municipality of Reggio Emilia 1983, with essays by R. De Grada, G.C. Argan, R. Guttuso, et al.
• M. De Luca, , V. Mazzarella, R. Ruscio, Il Museo Marino Mazzacurati (The Mazzacurati Museum), Reggio Emilia 1995

External links

• (English) Mazzacurati on Artcyclopedia. Accessed 28/05/2011
• (English) Monumento to the Partisan, image on Ilovefiguresculpture.com. Accessed 28/05/2011
• (English) Fat man with child, image on Ilovefiguresculpture.com. Accessed 28/05/2011
• (Italian) Artist's News, on Scuolaromana.it. Accessed 28/05/2011
• (Italian) Lottatori (Wrestlers), sculpture (1943), immage on Scuolaromana.it. Accessed 27/05/2011
• (Italian) Ritratto di Scipione (Portrait of Scipione), oil on canvas (1929), immage on Scuolaromana.it. Accessed 27/05/2011
• (Italian) Mazzacurati's Bio, on Scultura Italiana. Accessed 28/05/2011

Persondata
Name	Mazzacurati, Renato Marino
Alternative names	Mazzacurati, Marino
Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	1907
Place of birth	Galliera, Italy
Date of death	1969
Place of death	Parma, Italy