Sphere Within Sphere by Pomodoro in Trinity College, Dublin

Arnaldo Pomodoro is an Italian sculptor. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest He was born on June 23, 1926, in Morciano, Romagna, Italy. Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Morciano di Romagna is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Rimini in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna. Romagna is an Italian historical region that approximately corresponds to the south-eastern portion of present-day Emilia-Romagna. He currently lives and works in Milan. Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. His brother, Giò Pomodoro (1930-1993) was also a sculptor.

Pomodoro designed a controversial fiberglass crucifix for the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Cathedral of St John the Evangelist is the Episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee in Milwaukee Wisconsin, of which The piece is topped with a fourteen foot in diameter crown of thorns which hovers over the figure of Christ.

Some of Pomodoro's "Sphere Within Sphere" (Sfera con Sfera) can be seen in the Vatican Museums, Trinity College, Dublin, the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D. The Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani in Viale Vaticano in Rome, inside the Vatican City, are one of the greatest museums in the world since they display works Trinity College Dublin ( TCD; Irish Coláiste na Tríonóide Baile Átha Cliath; Latin: Collegium Sacrosanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae The United Nations Headquarters is a distinctive complex in New York City that has served as the headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1950 The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an Art museum located in Washington D C. , and the University of California, Berkeley. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley

In 1999 he founded Fondazione Pomodoro in Milan. Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. Originally conceived as a centre to document and archive the work of the artist, it opened an exhibition space in 2005, hosting exhibitions of prominent artists such as Jannis Kounellis. Jannis Kounellis was born in 1936 in Piraeus, Greece.He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. The director of Fondazione Pomodoro is Flaminio Gualdoni.

Scenographies for theatre and opera

• Semiramide by Gioacchino Rossini (1982), Teatro dell'Opera of Rome
• Orestea di Gibellina by Emilio Isgrò, on a text by Eschilo (1983-1985)
• Didone by Christopher Marlowe (1986)
• Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1987), Teatro dell'Opera of Genova - stage and costumes
• Oedipus rex by Igor Stravinsky (1988), Siena
• La Passione di Cleopatra by Ahmad Shawqi, an Egyptian poet (1989)
• I Paraventi by Jean Genet (1990), Teatro Comunale of Bologna - stage and costumes
• Nella solitudine dei campi di cotone by Bernard-Marie Koltès (1992)
• Più grandiose dimore by Eugene O'Neill (1993)
• Oreste di Vittorio Alfieri (1993)
• Stabat Mater, La passione secondo Giovanni and Vespro della Beata Vergine by Antonio Tarantino (1994-1995)
• Moonlight by Harold Pinter (1995)
• Drammi Marini by Eugene O'Neill (1996)
• Antigone by Jean Anouilh (1996)
• Tempesta by William Shakespeare (1998) - stage and costumes
• Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi (2005), Opernhaus of Lipsia - stage and costumes
• Teneke by Fabio Vacchi (2007), Teatro alla Scala of Milan - stage and costumes

Gallery

Sphere Within Sphere by Pomodoro in the Cortile della Pigna, Vatican, Rome

References

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External links

• Arnaldo Pomodoro biography
• Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro