This mysterious marble is\nreplete with dramatic intensity. Turned towards the sky, the face of the man\nrepresented is contorted by fear and tension. His eyes are suggested merely by\ntwo fine slots, that underline these emotions and evoke the tragic mask of\nclassical theatre. His horizontal mouth, exposing one row of teeth, confirm\nthis dramatic tension. It could be read as suggestive of a desperate cry, as\nattributed by Virgil to the priest Laoco\u00f6n, while defending himself against the\ntwo monstrous snakes. Or quite the opposite, a suppressed cry, as interpreted\nby Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in their respective\nstudy of the antique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The back of the bust has been\nleft uncarved by the sculptor, as if intended as a high relief. The treatment\nof the face, with its smoothed and simplified features, recalls Italian\nsculpture as it was taught at the Accademia\ndi belle arti di Carrara<\/em> by sculptors such as Carlo Fontana, around the\nbeginning of twentieth century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The signature \u201cProf. Bonaldi\u201d\ncould be attributed to the Italian sculptor Almo Bonaldi. In 1924, his name is\nmentioned as the owner of a sculpture studio specialized in marble in the city\nof Carrara[1]<\/a>.\nIn 1930, he participated to the Premio Reale-Premio Dervill\u00e9 at the Accademia di belle arti di Carrara<\/em>, with\na sculpture representing a young centaur[2]<\/a>.\nThis official sculpture contest was organized by the academy in collaboration\nwith the marble industrialists of the region, which might explain why Almo\nBonaldi participated. Later on, his presence in Toulon could be linked to the founding\nof an enterprise of marble masons, under the name Bonaldi, around 1930 in the\nregion. Still active today, the company seems to have furnished stones for some\nof the public fountains in the center of Toulon. In the context of this\nmigration, Almo Bonaldi might have continued his artistic practice and\nteaching, as his signature suggests, in the south of France. [1]<\/a> Ministero delle finanze, Direzione generale delle imposte\ndirette, Imposta sui redditi di richhezza\nmobile, elenco dei contribuenti privati possessori di redditi incerti e\nvariabili, Provincia di Massa-Carrara<\/em>, Roma, Libreria dello Stato, 1924, p.\n30. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [2]<\/a> Renato Carozzi,\n\u00ab Marmo ad ogni costo : L\u2019Accademia di Carrara tra il 1890 e il\n1950\u201d, in X Biennale internazionale Citt\u00e0\ndi Carrara : il primato della scultura : il Novecento a Carrara\ne dintorni<\/em>, Firenze, Maschietto & Musolino, 2000, p. 147.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This mysterious marble is replete with dramatic intensity. Turned towards the sky, the face of the man represented is contorted by fear and tension. His eyes are suggested merely by two fine slots, that underline these emotions and evoke the tragic mask of classical theatre. His horizontal mouth, exposing one row of teeth, confirm this … Continue reading “Almo Bonaldi”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3375\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3363\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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