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5 unusual facts about Giacomo Manzù


Dino Pedriali

Photographed by Pedriali were people like Giacomo Manzù, Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Moravia, Federico Fellini, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol, Man Ray, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, whom he photogaphed shortly before Pasolini's 1975 death.

Door of the Dead in St. Peter's Basilica

The Door of the Dead, also known as the Door of Death, is a bronze door sculpted by Giacomo Manzù between 1961 and 1964 by commission of Pope John XXIII.

Giacomo Manzù

His last great work was the 6 m-tall sculpture facing the ONU seat in New York, inaugurated in 1989.

During World War II Manzù moved to Clusone, returning to teach at Brera after the end of the conflict, a position he held until 1954.

He was the subject of a famous photographic portrait by Yousuf Karsh.


Cimitero Monumentale di Milano

Many of the tombs belong to noted industrialist dynasties, and have been designed by renowned artists such as Giò Ponti, Arturo Martini, Lucio Fontana, Medardo Rosso, Giacomo Manzù, Floriano Bodini, and Giò Pomodoro.

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna

Its 75 rooms house the largest collection of works by 19th- and 20th-century Italian artists including Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Giovanni Fattori, Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio Morandi, Giacomo Manzù, Alberto Burri, Antonio Canova, Felice Casorati and Lucio Fontana.


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