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Medardo Rosso

Medardo Rosso (1858 - 1928) was active/lived in Italy, France.  Medardo Rosso is known for Impressionist sculpture-portrait.

Medardo Rosso was born in Turin, Italy, in 1858, the son of the city stationmaster. Later his family mover to Milano (Milan).  As a child Rosso played hooky from school to visit a monument mason who taught him to handle a chisel and hammer. This distressed and angered his parents.  At the age of 23, after a period of military service as unsatisfactory as his home life, he enrolled at the Berea Academy in Milano, where he learned to draw classical statues and copy them in gesso.

But academic art appeared to him entirely artificial, unrelated to the world around him. Before long he helped to organize the Berea students into demanding life models for the drawing classes. As a result of his revolutionary behavior he was expelled from the school.  He moved to Rome, where he lived in great poverty, sleeping among the ruins of the Colosseum.

To the end of his life Rosso battled unremittingly against the academicians. What absorbed, even obsessed, him was the probl   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3674 characters.]  Artist bio

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