'FAZZINI' JOURNEY

The famous sculptor Pericle Fazzini, the author of the magnificent bronze work “Resurrection of Christ” exhibited in the Nervi Hall at the Vatican, was born in Grottammare.
At the age of sixteen he moved to Rome where his extraordinary and lucky career started. He often came back to Grottammare to visit his childhood places.

The ‘Fazzini’ journey lets you get near the intense career of the artist, a career full of exhibitions in the most important world museums: it’s an ideal route starting from the beach up to the old town whose steps are the author’s most significant works.

At the entrance of the cycle track that connects Grottammare to Cupramarittima stands in harmony between the nature and the sea the bronze work “Boy with the cobs”, realized using the original wooden version.

In the main square of the town, named after Fazzini himself, stands up the sketch of the monument of Kennedy named “Metamorphosis” (1965) donated by the artist to his native town: it’s a bronze stelae broken in length that represents the tragedy of the American people when they heard about the murder of the President Kennedy: among the empty spaces opening in the middle of the work it is possible to perceive the profile of the president.

Other works of Fazzini are scattered along the town: nearby the “Park of the Madonnina” it is possible to admire the “Portrait of Mario Rivosecchi”, both his friend and the poet that found out his talent and introduced him into the artistic circles of Rome. Walk up to the old town and enter into S. Agostino Church where a splendid bronze “Via Crucis” has been kept.

The heart of this route is the Tower of the Battle Museum, a rampart from sixteenth-century, whose rooms put up a permanent exhibition of Fazzini works including bronze sketches, drawings, lithography and other valuable objects that testifies the deep artistic inspirations of the author.

Among the most important and famous works there is the bronze sketch of the “Resurrection of Christ”, the magnificent sculpture that overlooks the stage of the Paul VI Audience Hall (Nervi Hall) at the Vatican. That work required seven years to be finished and from it is possible to find out all the mainly artistic themes of the ‘wind-carver ‘.