Luigi Froni (1901-1965) war ein italienischer Bildhauer, bekannt für bewegende Porträts und charmante Kinderdarstellungen. Entdecken Sie seine Werke aus Parma in der Cariparma Foundation.
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The life-size bronze represents one of the many moments of study for the making of the funerary monument of Lina Maghenzani, mother of the writer Giovannino Guareschi, buried in Marore, Parma, in 1952. The child has a non-crying expression, but he is discovering a new and difficult reality for him to understand: that of death. Froni liked to be inspired by real models: he chose a child, his neighbor, who had abandoned his studies and who was called Gramigna. He created, modeling it in clay, both the face of the
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