Giovanni De Martino

Le Pêcheur de criquets, 1916.

Giovanni De Martino (1870 – 1935) is an Italian sculptor.

Quotes about Giovanni De Martino

• • Giovanni De Martino è il più importante esponente dell'arte italiana, vanto d'Italia.
  • Giovanni De Martino is the most important exponent of Italian art, the pride of Italy. (Benito Mussolini)
    • Quadriennale di Roma, 1931
• Other recurring motifs of Demartinian's work are the fishermen tried by fatigue, the painful face of their women, modeled with anxious emotion. (Vincenzo Vicario)
  • Vincenzo Vicario. Gli scultori italiani dal Neoclassicismo al Liberty, Volume 1, Pomerio, 1990, p. 405, ISBN 8871213750
• The children of De Martino are just born, gay and playful [...] adolescents abandoned with the signs of suffering; children taken in the functions of their childhood and common games with the melancholy of deep eyes. (Pietro Barillà)
  • cited in 1935. Luigi Iaccarino, Mimmo Di Guida, Rossella Manzione. Novecento, un secolo di novecento, tra collezionismo privato ed esposizioni pubbliche, Edizioni Vincent, Napoli, 2010
• Giovanni De Martino's sculpture reveals a very passionate talent for art. (Enrico Giannelli)
  • Enrico Giannelli. Artisti napoletani viventi: pittori, scultori ed architetti, 1916, ed. Melfi & Joele, p. 560, Coll. Università di Princeton
• Giovanni De Martino was a childhood poet. (Emanuele Samek Lodovici)
  • Emanuele Samek Lodovici. Storici, teorici e critici delle arti figurative d'Italia dal 1800 al 1940, Ed. Tosi, 1942
• [...] hungry, offended, sickly, begging children, as they were seen (and unfortunately still see them) in the deafest alleys of old Naples, De Martino's is therefore an indirect protest and, perhaps for this reason, very effective. (Paolo Ricci)
  • Paolo Ricci. Arte e artisti a Napoli (1800-1943), cronache e memorie, Ed. Guida, 1983, p. 83, ISBN 9788870421897