#CALABRIA, #Italy HOME OF THE #RIACE BRONZES and #DIEGO VOCI

News from Calabria, #Italy, where #Diego Voci is listed as one of the FAMOUS CALABRIANS, including more than 5 Popes, a dozen Saints, the Versace Family, Artists and more:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabria 

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Italy Risks Priceless Riace Bronzes for Cash

Alexander Forbes, Thursday, August 21, 2014 (Click on Link above to artnet)

“Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini is weighing whether to ship the world-renowned #Riace Bronzes from their home in #Calabria, over 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) north to Milan, the Corriere della Sera reports. In the proposed plan, the pair of statues would travel to the next Universal Exposition, EXPO 2015, for a period of six months. However, many experts believe that even a slight movement could result in the nearly 2,500-year-old-statues’ destruction. There’s no telling, they say, what havoc such a lengthy trip could wreak.

Known interchangeably as the Riace Bronzes or the Riace Warriors, the pair of life size statues depict naked Greek warriors and were created between 460–420 BC. They are currently housed at the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia in a climate controlled room on pedestals designed to minimize even the slightest movement due to seismic or other activity. First discovered in 1972, they underwent nine years of conservation before emerging to great fanfare in 1981. They recently underwent a second round of restoration from 2010–2011 while the museum was also undergoing renovations.”

41 YEAR TRIBUTE TO DIEGO

Here another example of how Diego Voci’s work of art is appreciated by his collectors.

In a 1972 letter to Helga Voci from Colonel Norman W Marohn, it was stated that a Diego Voci work of art titled “The Group of Fisherman” will be presented to the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, for their permanent collection at the Forrest R Polk Library in memory of “The Emil and Louise Marohn Family and the James Gibbs Family“.” It was also requested in the letter that “a biographical sketch of Diego Voci that could be placed permanently with his painting at the University”.

Paintings like these donated to public institutions mean a great deal and the press was there to document this one specifically. See below a photograph published August 8, 1972 in Fond du Loc Reporter, of a graduate student hanging this Diego Voci painting in the library where it has hung for over 41 years.

Recently, in the Forrest R Polk Library transformation, painting was returned back to the Mahron family. In addition to this painting held in a public institution for over 40 years, this work of art was recently published in the deluxe collector’s book titled “The Beauty of Diego” by Stephen Max.

Here is the page in book of “The Group of Fisherman”

http://www.blurb.com/books/5419805-the-beauty-of-diego