Father Costantino Ruggeri
Franciscan artist
The biography, works, and bibliography are pdf excerpts from the volume 'Father Costantino Ruggeri - Franciscan artist' edited by Maria Antonietta Crippa and published by SilvanaEditoriale in 2019.
This book aims to offer an initial historicization of them, to which they have chorally contributed: Giorgio Azzoni, Carlo Cavallari, Maria Antonietta Crippa, Mario Favretto, Luigi Leoni, Roberta Manara, Massimo Ravazzano, Carmen Romagnano, Chiara Rovati, Nicoletta Scherillo, Andrea Vaccari, Virtus Zallot, Ferdinando Zanzottera.
For those who wish to purchase the book, please refer to the direct link to the publisher: https://www.silvanaeditoriale.it/libro/9788836641734
The joy of Franciscan friendship and thecommitment to live it in artistic research as well characterize in a decisive way the multifaceted production of Costantino Ruggeri (1925-2007), frate Franciscan and priest.
A singular artist active throughout the second half of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st, he leaves a legacy-in paintings, sculptures, liturgical furnishings and fittings, stained glass windows and churches-that attests to his modern dialogue and skillful synthesis between contributions from the artistic avant-gardes of the 20th century and iconographic and symbolic innovations anchored in the Christian tradition.