Nationality Italian Notable work Pincio Grazia Deledda | Known for sculpture Died 1985 | |
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Born 1913 Villamassargia | ||
Amelia Camboni (1913 Villamassargia - 1985 Rome) was an Italian artist.
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Life
She was the first of three children, who lost her mother at the age of nine. She spent time in Cagliari, where she was a student of Francesco Ciusa. In 1946, she moved to Rome, the city where she worked for many years in a studio in Porta Pinciana. Her time in Rome gave rise to intense productivity, marked by major works, commissioned by public and private bodies, that today are largely in her hometown, at the town hall and in some municipal schools.
In 1947 she was commissioned to design the bust "Pincio Grazia Deledda." In 1985, she was awarded by the Prime Minister, the Prize for culture.
In 1981, she wrote her autobiography entitled: "The stepchildren of God: a life and other lives." She died in 1985.
Legacy
In 2011, in Villamassargia, a library was named for her.
Works
The artist, sculptures, look chiaroscuro with extreme grace, shapes the material with softness, avoiding clear dividing lines, even when clear, bronze casting in some portraits, shows sign of the instrument that shaped the clay. Guttuso said:
I appreciate the quality of sculptress Amelia Conti, the rigor and simplicity of her modeling and acute psychological insight that stands by her portraits.