Giuseppe Ducrot (born 1966 in Rome) is an Italian sculptor and member of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon.

Life

edit

Born in 1966 Ducrot set out in tempera painting and black-white drawings. During his military-service he painted a portrait series of his comrades.[1] After a time of experimenting, among others within the workshops of the figurative painter Giovanni Colacicchi and the sculptor Vito Cipolla, Ducrot dedicated himself entirely to the plastic arts. Despite some approaches to abstraction the majority of Ducrot's oeuvre emulates Imperial Roman and Hellenistic art as well as the dynamics of Baroque sculpture. He works in terracotta, glazed ceramics, marble and lost wax bronze casting. Apart from numerous bozzetti Ducrot's works comprise both projects within the range of heritage conservation and private as well as Church commissions. Since 2013 Ducrot members among the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts (Class for Painting). He lives and works in Rome.[2]

Works (selection)

edit

Hitherto Ducrot's principal works are:[3]

Bibliography

edit
  • Achille Bonito Oliva, Giuseppe Ducrot, sculture 1992–1994 (exhibition catalogue, Galleria Carlo Virgilio), Rome 1995.
  • Alberto Abruzzese and Marco Tullio Giordana, Giuseppe Ducrot, ritratti per I cento passi, Rome 2000.
  • Achille Bonito Oliva, Giuseppe Ducrot (exhibition catalogue, ARCO 20.02.2015–10.05.2015), Rome 2015.

References

edit
  1. ^ Cf. Marco Vallora, La 'naja' in nero e pastello, in: Il Giornale, 11 April 1991.
  2. ^ Cf. Ducrot, Giuseppe, in: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Lessico del XXI Secolo (2012); and Achille Bonito Oliva, Giuseppe Ducrot (exhibition catalogue, ARCO 20.02.2015–10.05.2015), Rome 2015, p. 142.
  3. ^ Extensively in Achille Bonito Oliva 2015, pp. 134–139.
  4. ^ Cf. Alfonso Feola, La statua bronzea di San Benedetto a coronamento di una nuova rotaria Archived 29 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine, in: GazzettaRegionale, 12 July 2015.
  5. ^ Cf. The Pope blesses the statue of St Hannibal Mary Archived 20 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, in: L’Osservatore Romano, 8 July 2010; Benedizione della statua di Sant'Annibale Maria di Francia – 7 luglio 2010, in: La Basilica di S. Pietro 22/7 (2010), pp. 1–2.
  6. ^ Cf. Die unruhige Besorgnis des Vorläufers Jesu, Eine neue Statue von Giuseppe Ducrot in der Basilika Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri Archived 29 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine, in: L’Osservatore Romano, 22 June 2012.
  7. ^ Cf. Alyssa Bird, The Most Attractive New Bar on the Amalfi Coast, in: Architectural Digest, 31 July 2015.
  8. ^ Cf. Jakob Wetzel, Auferstehung in der Theatinerkirche, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung (online), 3 May 2017.
edit