Leonardo Lucchi - Christ and the Samaritan Woman

The sculpture is inspired by an episode from the Gospels, offering a classicist interpretation. Leonardo Lucchi's artistic language, in fact, draws inspiration from classical Greek and Roman antiquity, as well as from its revival during the Renaissance. All this translates into an execution whose primary objective is mimesis, that is, the human need to imitate and reproduce nature, that which surrounds us. Along with naturalistic rendering, the other fundamental concept, according to the parameters of Classicism, is the unity of the work of art, through a harmonious correspondence between all its parts. The sculpture is inspired by the episode reported in the Gospel of John in which Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at Jacob's well.

As we can see in this work, Leonardo Lucchi begins with a classical conception of sculpture, based on the representation of the human figure. Lucchi possesses remarkable sculptural technique, as can be seen in the way he delineates the group's volumes. While the figure of Christ stands static and imposing, emphasized by the vertical folds of his tunic, by contrast the Samaritan woman sits in a graceful pose, characterized by lively drapery. The woman's very posture evokes the presence of the well over which she is supposed to be sitting. Indeed, the plastic presence of Lucchi's figures is so strong that it creates a concrete and measurable space around them. Although Lucchi's sculptural conception is committed to a classicist and naturalistic register, signs of modernity are nevertheless perceptible in his work. This is particularly evident in the modeling of the material, which, unlike classical purity, favors a living surface, vibrant with interactions with space and existence. All this presupposes a modern attitude to sculptural work that goes from Rodin onwards.

Leonardo Lucchi was born in Cesena in 1952. He trained at the Istituto d'Arte per la Ceramica in Faenza. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and received important commissions. Examples include the Risen Christ and the Stations of the Cross for the Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity in Singapore, the coins minted by the Republic of San Marino for the bicentenary of the French Revolution, and, in Cesena, the important bronze groups preserved in the cathedral.

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