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Emilio Greco (Catania 1913 – 1995) He attended primary school in the former convent of San Placido in Catania and in that period, looking out from a grate from Palazzo Biscari, he observed enchanted the remains of the Greco-Roman structures which influenced his passion for sculpture ancient. He achieved great popularity with the monument Pinocchio and the Fairy (1956) for the town of Collodi. Read the full biography

Emilio Greco Biography

Emilio Greco (Catania 1913 – 1995) He attended primary school in the former convent of San Placido in Catania and in that period, looking out from a grate from Palazzo Biscari, he observed enchanted the remains of the Greco-Roman structures which influenced his passion for sculpture ancient. He achieved great popularity with the monument Pinocchio and the Fairy (1956) for the town of Collodi. His cycle of the Great Bathers and his portraits of young women were poetic. He is also the author of the Monument to Pope John XXIII in St. Peter's and the Doors of the Cathedral of Orvieto (1970). In 1974 the open air museum of Hakone dedicated a permanent area to him called "Greco Garden". The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow have dedicated a permanent room of sculptures and graphic works to him. In Catania, the museum dedicated to him offered a collection of numerous lithographs and etchings. He is currently considered one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century.