{"id":102996,"date":"2021-08-20T08:13:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T07:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.demonewlogic.it\/?post_type=artisti&#038;p=102996"},"modified":"2025-06-05T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:27:59","slug":"antonietta-raphael","status":"publish","type":"artisti","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/artisti\/antonietta-raphael\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonietta Rapha\u00ebl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;183252&#8243;]<strong>Antonietta Rapha\u00ebl<\/strong> (Kovno, Lithuania 1895 \u2013 Rome 1975)<\/p>\n<h2>She moved to London<\/h2>\n<p>Antonietta Rapha\u00ebl was born to the rabbi of Kovno, and she moved to London after his death where she completed a piano diploma and lived for nearly 20 years.<\/p>\n<h2>Antonietta Rapha\u00ebl settled in Rome<\/h2>\n<p>After leaving England she settled in Rome where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts and met <a href=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/artists\/mario-mafai\/\">Mario Mafai<\/a> with whom she shared a long artistic and romantic partnership.<\/p>\n<h2>Her interest in sculpture<\/h2>\n<p>Antonietta Rapha\u00ebl was with him in 1930 in Paris where she developed her interest in sculpture. Some time later she moved to London where she frequented Jacob Epstein&#8217;s sculpture studio.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_111088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111088\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111087\" src=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/La-sognatrice-1946-scaled-e1675694738199-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\" Antonietta Raphael su Egidi MadeinItaly\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La sognatrice Antonietta Raphael<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Racial laws<\/h3>\n<p>Racial laws forced her to take refuge first in Tuscany and then in Genoa, where she focused on studying sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>Critics started fully appreciating her work in the 1950s, leading the <strong>Galleria dello Zodiaco in Rome<\/strong> to hold an important retrospective of her work.<\/p>\n<h2>A trip to China<\/h2>\n<p>A 1956 trip to China led her to exhibit in Beijing alongside the artists Aligi Sassu and Giulio Turcato, and later in several group shows in Europe, Asia, and America.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110179\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110178\" src=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Missione-segreta-1965-scaled-e1679993735436-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Missione segreta 1965\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Missione segreta 1965<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The Scuola Romana<\/h2>\n<p>Many of her works were introduced to the public at the VIII Quadriennale di Roma, 1959\u20131960, in an exhibit dedicated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/roman-school\/\">Scuola Romana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The show definitively placed her as a major exponent of the group, recognizing her influence on contemporary artistic movements.<\/p>\n<p>Antonietta Raphael let painting fall increasingly by the wayside and devoted her remaining years almost exclusively to sculpture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>[\/vc_custom_heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each sunset is a day in our past lives that will never return. 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