Amalia Ciardi Duprè, Maternity Lying Down, 1965, Museo Novecento
Amalia Ciardi Dupré’s Maternity Lying Down
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‘It’s raining mothers’. Maternity is a common theme for Tuscan artist Amalia Ciardi Dupré, as one can see during a visit of her Gallery and Cultural Center on Florence’s Via degli Artisti (CAD). During an interview with the octogenarian artist for their book When the World Answered, authors Jane Fortune and Linda Falcone, note the following: “We asked if Amalia remembered the statues she had sculpted when she was just a school girl at the Accademia. The artist was curious to look at the two photos of her early Maternity sculptures from the city’s Archives Office. ‘Oh,’ she exclaimed, ‘What cloud did these two works rain from?’” Maternity Lying Down was restored by AWA in 2016. It has remained in storage at Florence’s Twentieth-century Museum.