{"id":125067,"date":"2025-05-13T16:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/artisti\/renato-marino-mazzacurati\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:38:21","slug":"renato-marino-mazzacurati","status":"publish","type":"artisti","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/artisti\/renato-marino-mazzacurati\/","title":{"rendered":"Renato Marino Mazzacurati"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Renato Marino Mazzacurati<\/h2>\n<p>He studies in Veneto, then he moves to Rome at a very young age (1926) and he gets involved with the main artists active in Rome at the time.<\/p>\n<p>He frequents Villa Strohl-Fern, where he meets <strong>Francesco Di Cocco<\/strong> and Arturo Martini, of whom he becomes personal assistant in 1927 and 1928.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/caffe-aragno-and-the-roman-school\/\">He meets the artists and literates at Caf\u00e9 Aragno&#8217;s &#8220;Third Room&#8221;<\/a> on Via del Corso, and at Rome&#8217;s Fine Art Academy he meets Mafai, Rapha\u00ebl and Scipione, starting a very deep friendship with them.<\/p>\n<p>The various artistic influences, from Novecento&#8217;s primitivism to the <a href=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/roman-school\/\">Scuola Romana&#8217;s tonalism<\/a>, enrich his cultural background, which will be completed by a trip to Paris, getting in touch with the most avantgarde European trends, particularly in regards to sculpture. In 1930 with Scipione he funds the &#8220;Fronte&#8221; magazine, only published twice in 1931. Always loyal to a sacred idea of the trade, he trains with artisans and decorators from Padua. From the 1930s he almost exclusively sculpts. In those years, he produces remarkable critical art pieces against the regime, often infused with scathing and grotesque irony. Political commitment and a reflection on the Resistance will be the underlying theme in all his subsequent production, mainly consisting of figurative pieces and memorials.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_123571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123571\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123570\" src=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lottatori-Marino-Mazzacurati-190x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Renato Marino Mazzacurati\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lottatori Marino Mazzacurati<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Egidi MadeinItaly new arrivals in our gallery<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A delightful drawing depicting a female nude signed Mazzacurati is available for sale in our works catalog.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_125061\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125061\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125060\" src=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Renato-M.-Mazzacurati-opera-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Renato M. Mazzacurati in vendita su Egidi MadeinItaly\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Renato-M.-Mazzacurati-opera-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Renato-M.-Mazzacurati-opera-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Renato-M.-Mazzacurati-opera-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Renato-M.-Mazzacurati-opera-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Renato-M.-Mazzacurati-opera-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Renato-M.-Mazzacurati-opera-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Renato-M.-Mazzacurati-opera-348x348.jpg 348w, https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Renato-M.-Mazzacurati-opera-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Renato-M.-Mazzacurati-opera-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Renato-M.-Mazzacurati-opera.jpg 1984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female nude on paper<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Sculpture<\/h2>\n<p>Since the 1930s he has devoted himself almost exclusively to sculpture. In those years he produced works with a marked polemical accent against the regime, often pervaded by biting and grotesque irony.<br \/>\nPolitical commitment and reflection on the Resistance will be the common thread linking his later artistic production, producing mainly figurative works and memorials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trained in the Veneto region, he went to Rome at a very young age in 1926, coming into contact with the leading artists active in the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":123577,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[6509],"class_list":["post-125067","artisti","type-artisti","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-roman-school-of-art","tag-scuola-di-via-cavour-en","tags-m"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Renato Marino Mazzacurati - 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