Marcello Tommasi

OVID METAMORPHOSES Signed Lithograph, Nessus and Deianira, Centaur, Mythology

1975

Marcello Tommasi was born on January 29, 1928, in Pietrasanta, Italy. The Italian sculptor and painter, Marcello Tommasi, was active mainly in Florence, Paris and Pietrasanta and is considered the symbolic heir of fifteenth-century Neoplatonism. He was the son of the sculptor Leone Tommasi and brother of the famous painter Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni. Between 1948–58, he attended Pietro Annigoni's studio, drawing, painting and gradually committing to sculpture. Master of figurative art, he worked a lot in the field of sacred art and secular art, often taking inspiration from the Greek myths. His enormous production includes hundreds of works including drawings, sketches, sculptures, paintings and frescoes. Today his works are kept in the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints in the Uffizi, in the National Museum of Warsaw, in the modern art galleries of Barcelona, Malaga, Piacenza and the Vatican, at the Azorin Museum of Monóvar and the Museo casa natale di Michelangelo Buonarroti in Caprese Michelangelo. It is also found at the National Library of Paris, at the University of Pisa and the Institute of Art History of the University of Florence. He died on September 27, 2008, in Camaiore, Italy.