Chiaro di Luna (Moonlight)

At just sixteen years of age, Mario Salazzari won a competition to realise the Monumentro ai Caduti, in the Borgo Roma neighbourhood of Verona, which was unveiled later in 1925. This work was followed by such other important commissions as that for the Monumento al Genio Pontieri now on the Lungadige Capuleti, and the Monumento al Pontiere d'Italia, in Piacenza. Chiaro di luna belongs to this creative period: the face of the young woman is modelled and defined as it emerges from the raw plaster, with an explicit reference to the sculpture of Medardo Rosso. Salazzari's work, such as the equestrian groups on the Ponte della Vittoria, was later to be influenced by Liberty filtered through the ideas of the Venetian Secession group based at Ca'Pesaro; this group was centred around Felice Casorati whom Salazzari had been introduced to by the artist Prati.年仅十六岁时，马里奥·萨拉扎里（Mario Salazzari）便在竞赛中脱颖而出，获邀打造位于维罗纳罗马堡（Borgo Roma）街区的《阵亡者纪念碑》（Monumentro ai Caduti），该作品于1925年正式揭幕。此后他承接了多项重要委托，包括现坐落于卡普莱蒂滨河大道（Lungadige Capuleti）的《桥梁工程师天才纪念碑》（Monumento al Genio Pontieri），以及位于皮亚琴察的《意大利桥梁工程师纪念碑》（Monumento al Pontiere d'Italia）。《月光》（Chiaro di luna）便属于这一创作时期：作品中年轻女子的面容经精细塑形与刻画，仿佛从生石膏毛坯中自然浮现，其创作理念明确致敬了梅达多·罗索（Medardo Rosso）的雕塑风格。萨拉扎里的后续作品，如胜利桥（Ponte della Vittoria）上的骑马群雕，此后受到了自由风格（Liberty）的影响，而这种影响经由以卡佩萨罗宫（Ca'Pesaro）为活动据点的威尼斯分离派（Venetian Secession group）团体的理念传递而来；该团体以费利切·卡索拉蒂（Felice Casorati）为核心，萨拉扎里正是通过艺术家普拉蒂（Prati）的引荐结识了卡索拉蒂。