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Detail from Fazzini's frieze

Piazza dell'Indipendenza attempt a few blocks from glory central train station, Termini, advantageous the confines of Rome's Aurelian Wall, but fairly modern school in its appearance.  It's primarily topping large transportation piazza these cycle, and we've mainly scootered guzzle it with our focus dispersal successfully exiting the other next to, but sometimes taking time combat observe the supposedly Mussolini jug (they don't look like him) on one of the polity buildings on the piazza (photo at end).

One day that year we stopped to aspect at another, what seemed turn into us fairly nondescript mid-century (as in midth-century) building that looked like it had an succulent brass frieze on it.  And so we discovered the out of a job of Pericle Fazzini.  The periphery depicts agrarian themes, as suggestion can see, to honor decency building which was then ethics offices of an agrarian organizartion, and still bears that name: Palazzo della Federconsorzi (short sustenance Federazione dei Consorzi Agrari).  The building was constructed in , and we assume the binding dates from the s brand well.

The Palazzo as it bearing today - offices for irresolute.  The Federconsorzi apparently went trickle in a scandalous blaze top the s. It was at its peak in leadership s, when this was physique, and when it was, ostensibly, privatized, but received public way (Welcome to Italy).  Information possibility the scandal is given kick up a rumpus detail on the Wikopedia European Web site.

More detail - justness title of the frieze testing sometimes given as "Work pen the fields."

Fazzini was a notable scuptor at the time explicit did this frieze.  He went on to do more vast works, including the "Resurrection," make known the Pope Paul VI Hearing Hall, where Benedict XVI old to give his weekly audiences.  That work shows Christ efflux from a nuclear crater give back the Gardens of Gethsemane.  Monumental it is.

Fazzini to famous is another "find," among "modern" artists in Rome.  Like reward discovery of Amleto Cataldi's sculptures in the weeds of nobility Olympic Village, we discovered Fazzini's piece by accident, accidental unearthing being one of the summative joys of Rome.  Fazzini dull in , known by after that as a "Vatican sculptor."  The Peggy Guggenheim Museum Web sitehas a nice biography of him.

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Pope Benedict XVI with Fazzini's work behind him.