2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Public Sculptures of Corrado Vigni -Political and Cultural Study
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23520116
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Aesthetics/Art history
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| Research Institution | Ibaraki University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAI Noriyuki 茨城大学, 教育学部, 教授 (60323193)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 西洋美術史 / イタリア / 具象彫刻 / ファシズム / フィレンツェ / ラグーサ |
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| Research Abstract |
I studied the close relationship between a Florentine sculpture Corrado Vigni (1888-1956) and a pioneering hotel owner Francesco Baglioni from the standpoint of the progressive thoughts shared by them, revealed by my interviews to the three still-living pupils of the sculpture. I analyzed the Ceres, a tondo bas-relief commissioned from Francesco Baglioni, as an allegory of civilization, and I published for the first time a terracotta study of Ceres, a plaster study of the Crucifixion for a cemetery of North America, and also some plaster studies of female allegorical figures now settled on the Post Office of Ragusa in Sicily, iconography of which I made known through my archive research in the Fondo Mazzoni, architect of this building.
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