1937/59 Arturo Dazzi (1881/1966)
It was
built in reinforced concrete, 45 m (148 feet) high
92 panels
in Carrara marble with “Guglielmo Marconi achievements, and other allegorical
scenes”
Guglielmo
Marconi (1874/1937) in 1895 invented the radio, or more precisely, the wireless
telegraphy using radio waves
Although
other scientists of his time as the Serbian-born American Nikola Tesla or the
Russian Alexander Stepanovič Popov conducted similar experiments in the same
years, Marconi's experiments were the first to prompt applications of practical
use and commercial scale
“Because of
the war Dazzi worked with numerous interruptions on the truncated pyramid
stele, until in 1952, at the height of a crisis of dissatisfaction, he broke
all the plasterboards. Once he was given the job back for the involvement of
the Marconi family, he began all alone, even without the help of a rough-hewer,
and he completed the work in 1957. He drew the figures in charcoal on the
marble rocks, then lowering the bottom plate in order to bring out the contour
line. The representation, divided into 'Songs' - the 'Joy', the 'Dance', the
'Harvest', the 'Flood' and so on - celebrates the universality of the medium
that unites all peoples of the world, including even animals. It is as one of
the great medieval encyclopedias interpreted, however, with a completely modern
spirit” (Maria Antonietta Picone Petrusa - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
Treccani)
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