Gemito. Le sculpteur de l'âme napolitaine. Histoire de l’art and so do all adults

and so do all adults

spirituality

Memoirs of NABU 14

step by step

de la fertilité comme de l’inspiration

Gemito. Le sculpteur de l'âme napolitaine. Histoire de l’art and so do all adultsThe story of Vincenzo Gemito (1852 1929) is that of a foundling, raised in the streets of Naples, who would become one of the greatest sculptors of his time, celebrated in his hometown and later in the rest of Italy and Europe. At the age of twenty five, settled in Paris, he caused a sensation at the Salon and then the following year at the Universal Exhibition of 1878. Alternately decried and adored by critics, he introduced realism into Italian