Botero in Pietrasanta

Fernando Botero, famous all over the world for his works with characters that we could define as “round”, is a Colombian painter and sculptor, born in Medellin in 1932 and in love with Pietrasanta. A love that broke out when he spent a number of periods in the Versilia in the 1970s.

Since 2001, Botero has been appointed honorary citizen of Pietrasanta in 2001. The artist also appears to be of ancient Italian descent. As early as 1780, the brothers Giuseppe and Paolo Botero left the port of Genoa for Medellin. Botero created several works in the area’s artistic foundries and in the area’s laboratories.

Books Tuscany Over time, his love for this country conquered him so much that he made the decision to buy a house, which he chose just below the Rocca di Pietrasanta. His house is unmistakable, just look at a roof topped by a bronze rooster with its wings outstretched towards the dawn.

Paintings by Botero

The artist’s numerous donations to the city also testify to the Botero Pietrasanta connection. Suffice it to mention “Il Guerriero” by Botero, a bronze statue made in 1992, about 4 meters high and which dominates Piazza Matteotti. The two frescoes represent hell and paradise, interpreted according to his style. In “Gate of Hell,” the artist placed Adolf Hitler at the feet of Satan and himself as they are about to sink into the mud. In the “Gate of Paradise” he depicted Mother Teresa of Calcutta praying among the apple trees.

This concerns in particular the plaster sketches of the works ‘Adamo’, ‘Eve’ and ‘Woman with umbrella’, which the artist made in the 1970s. PAINTINGS BY BOTERO Considered a true icon of contemporary art, there is no doubt that his style is extremely recognizable.

.Botero’s women, depicted with plump shapes, represent a distinctive feature of the artist, making him unique in the world. However, with this detail of the fat shapes, the artist has always emphasized that he “does not paint fat women, but volumes”. He does the same with still lifes, landscapes and everything he brings to life with his art.

The dilation of forms is nothing other than the expression of sensuality, of pleasure, the glorification of life, which has marked a style in his paintings. Among Botero’s paintings there is also a copy of the Mona Lisa, in which he painted the Mona Lisa with a very young appearance and definitely larger than the original forms.

8 km from Villa Giulia