Luigi Froni (1901-1965) was an Italian sculptor known for poignant portraits & charming children's depictions. Explore his Parma works at the 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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