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Arturo Dazzi (Carrara, 13 July 1881 – Pisa, 16 October 1966) was an Italian sculptor and painter. Very early he was orphaned by his father, a concessionaire of quarries and a laboratory for the processing of marble, and at a very young age he began to work in his uncle's workshop as an apprentice stonecutter. Read the full biography

Arturo Dazzi Biography

Arturo Dazzi (Carrara, 13 July 1881 – Pisa, 16 October 1966) was an Italian sculptor and painter. Very early he was orphaned by his father, a concessionaire of quarries and a laboratory for the processing of marble, and at a very young age he began to work in his uncle's workshop as an apprentice stonecutter. Marble will be a material to which he remains linked throughout his life. In 1892 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara where he followed Lio Gangeri's courses until 1899; at the Academy, thanks to the approach to his studies on Renaissance art, his artistic training found a foundation for future work. After graduating, thanks to the acquisition of a three-year scholarship, Dazzi moved to Rome in 1901. He observed with participation and interest the cultural innovations both in the fields of sculpture and painting of the early twentieth century, and immediately began to receive recognition for his value as an artist. In Brescia he is known as the author of Il Bigio (official Fascist era name), a sculpture in Carrara marble (height 750 cm) created in 1932 and originally placed in Piazza della Vittoria in Brescia.