Angelo Canevari was born in Rome in 1930. His father, a well-known painter and art critic, introduced the artist to an environment where people like Ettore Colla, Corrado Cagli, Massimo Bontempelli and many others converged. It was precisely this education that influenced Canevari's choices towards drawing, painting but above all sculpture. In 1958 he held his first exhibition in Rome, in 1965 he took part in the Biennale dei Giovani in Paris. During the pontificate of Paul VI there will be numerous episodes of collaboration with the Vatican: from the bronze coffin for the Holy Door of St. Peter (1975) to the entire cycle of Vatican coins inspired by the litanies of Loreto (1987). He created the three bronze doors of the cathedral of Belluno and the Dioscuri of Frejus for the celebration of the tunnel.
In addition to being a world-renowned sculptor he is a noteworthy engraver not to mention his preparatory ink sketches. The classic, romantic themes, Ariosto, knights, battles are part of a moral universe that translates human values and history.
He has held about seventy personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad and exhibited in countless group exhibitions of Italian representation in museums and galleries all over the world. However, he left us in 2014, leaving an artistic legacy and an indelible memory of him.
