BRUNO LUCCHESI

   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Park Bench
1884
bronze
7 x 14 x 5 inches

Bruno Lucchesi, represented by Forum Gallery for over thirty years, is a remarkable artist who seems to encompass within his own work several centuries of Western sculpture. Known for his work in bronze, Lucchesi has been called "the last of the Renaissance sculptors" because of his remarkable facility with the human figure. There are "Gothic" overtones due to the touches of everyday life incorporated in his works, while the vigorous flowing forms of his sculpture are reminiscent of the Baroque tradition

Lucchesi’s graceful nudes have allegiances to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romantic and Neoclassical sculpture, and his "street people" look to the realism of Daumier. Unique to Bruno Lucchesi’s figurative works and to the twentieth century is the daring cantilevered "architecture" of certain tour-de-force pieces that seem to confound gravity.

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