The Dance Student — Venanzo Crocetti

The Dance Student


Venanzo Crocetti (1913 - 2003)

Discover Venanzo Crocetti, Italian sculptor known for dramatic bronze & marble works like 'Lioness' & 'Fantasy'. Explore his Vatican legacy & Rome museum.

Crocetti Museum (Rome, Italy)

Explore the captivating artistic world of Venanzo Crocetti at Rome's Crocetti Museum! Admire over 100 sculptures & paintings from his prolific career, housed in his former studio – a unique glimpse into Italian art history.

The standing female figure is among the first large-format works that the artist from Giulianova dedicated to the theme of dance, actually already present in some small-format bronzes from the forties. This is an example of the mature style of the artist, who is strongly linked to the realistic figurativity of the beautiful forms, but deprives the modeling of any redundancy reaching that compositional and plastic essentiality that characterizes his later production.