Angel of the city marino marini biography

Marino Marini, born in Pistoia in , from he went to the fine arts academy in Florence where he studied painting and etching, and from he followed Domenico Trentacoste’s sculpture course.

Angel of the city marino marini biography

From a very early age he was interested in the avant-gardes, as well as in the expressive possibilities of ancient, archaic, Etruscan and medieval sculpture; the latter was at the heart of his figurative culture, formed by looking at the Romanesque and Gothic monuments in Pistoia.

His preference for archaic forms was in fact to be seen in his paintings from the s and s. In he settled in Florence and joined the Novecento group, together with which he exhibited in and

In he met Arturo Martini who, in , asked him to take over his position as professor of sculpture at the Monza art school, where Marini was to have a studio and where he taught until in fact, from to his sculpture was his main interest and drawings were only used as a backing for studying and planning works of sculpture.