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Piazza della Pace

Monumento al Partigiano

Monument to the Partisan

Renato Marino Mazzacurati
1956

Description

Monument dedicated to the Italian Resistance, depicting three aspects of war and resistance: a fighter with the machine gun in hand, a fallen partisan and a shooting wall, made from brick houses of Parmigian homes destroyed by the bombings of 1944.

On the wall is written: "coi prodi nella stessa pietra abita ora la gloria".

Signature

(hardly readable)

Parma - Monumento al Partigiano

Sculptor

Renato Marino Mazzacurati (San Venanzio di Galliera, Bologna, 1907 - Parma 1969), italian sculptor (Dizionario Biografico).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Monumento al partigiano.
Comune di Parma, Scopri il territorio, Monumenti alla memoria.
Edoardo De Carli, Chi era Costui?

Locatie (N 44°48'14" - E 10°19'39") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: iter207; Photograph: 15 May 2017
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