Emilio Greco (1913-1995)
Greco taught sculpture in Rome, Carrara and Naples during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1959 he began work on a set of bronze doors for Orvieto Cathedral which were completed in 1964, and the following year was commissioned to sculpt a monument to Pope John XXIII for St Peter's in Rome. Influenced by Etruscan, Greek and Roman art, Greco's figures are classicised, yet bulky, often characterised by perfectly rounded heads. Life-size female figures and portrait busts dominate his oeuvre.
Emilio Greco, Nude, 1953
