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(Fontana Liri, 21 September 1910 – Marino, 25 February 1998). He was the son of Vincenzo Mastroianni and his second wife Luigia Maria Vincenza Conte. Read the full biography

Umberto Mastroianni Biography

(Fontana Liri, 21 September 1910 – Marino, 25 February 1998). He was the son of Vincenzo Mastroianni and his second wife Luigia Maria Vincenza Conte. Umberto was the uncle of the actor Marcello Mastroianni: in fact his father Vincenzo had had from his first wife - Concetta Conte, sister of the second - a son named Ottone, future father of Marcello. Umberto arrived in Rome in 1924, where he frequented, at the same time as his uncle Domenico's studio, the drawing courses at the Accademia di San Marcello. He moved to Turin in 1926 where he refined his "craft of sculptor" in Michele Guerrisi's atelier. In 1930 came the first official recognition, the "Tourism Award" offered by the Ministry of Education and, shortly thereafter, the first exhibitions at national and European level, including the Rome Quadrennial in 1935 and the Venice Biennale the following year. In 1995, the bronze bas-relief in memory of those fallen in the Resistance was designed and inaugurated in the city of Cumiana. In the same year the city of Cento, in honor of Guglielmo Marconi, inaugurated the monumental sculpture Elettra and, at the Palazzo dell'Arte on the occasion of the Milan Triennale, Umberto Mastroianni exhibited three monumental sculptures in the gardens: Guerriero from 1970-1988, Science Fiction from '71 and Sacral Machine from '88.