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Since moving to Italy, Peter Rockwell has been actively involved with the Catholic Church, both attending and providing his artistic talents. Among his commissions was an intensive collaboration with architects and builders on the creation of a cloister at the Chioggia Diocesan Museum near Venice in 2000. At its completion, the artist had carved 42 capitals, each one different, as well as 38 grotesques and an extensive series of terracotta masks for the cloister's facade.
Rockwell believes that imagery imparts experiences that cannot be expressed through the written word. "This is why we need art in our churches," he has said. "It reminds us that... our feeling for the infinite is beyond our ability to describe rationally."
(From the catalogue "The Fantastical Faces of Peter Rockwell: A Sculptor's Retrospective.")
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View of cloisters at the Chioggia Diocesan Museum, Italy. Artwork by Peter Rockwell. All rights reserved.
Video for the exhibition "Fantastical Faces of Peter Rockwell: A Sculptor's Retrospective," featuring the work of the acclaimed sculptor and youngest son of artist Norman Rockwell. The exhibition will be on view at Norman Rockwell Museum from July 11 through October 25, 2009.
As a young man, Peter Rockwell had no interest in pursuing a career as an artist, and intentionally avoided the arts because they were "too much in the family." A student of English literature at Haverford College, he eventually enrolled in a sculpture class at the prompting of his mother, Mary Rockwell, and "fell head-over-heels in love with it."
Today a noted sculptor and art historian, Peter Rockwell's vibrant, animated works, inspired by circus acrobats, animals in motion, gargoyles, and monsters are featured in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, The Bridgeport Museum of American Art, and the Norman Rockwell Museum, which holds the largest compilation of his art. A leading scholar of the history of stone carving, he has documented his knowledge in "The Art of Stoneworking," his highly-regarded reference guide. An outstanding collection of the artists bronze, marble, and limestone sculptures will be on view this year as part of Norman Rockwell Museums fortieth anniversary.
Video produced by Jeremy Clowe for Norman Rockwell Museum. ©2009 Norman Rockwell Museum. All rights reserved.
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