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Sem Ghelardini (Semme Ghelardini) was born on 30 March, 1927 in Pietrasanta, Italy, is an Italian sculptor. Discover Sem Ghelardini's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

Popular As Semme Ghelardini
Occupation sculptor and artisan
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 30 March, 1927
Birthday 30 March
Birthplace Pietrasanta, Italy
Date of death 1997
Died Place Pietrasanta, Italy
Nationality Italy

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1518

Michelangelo had been sent there in 1518 by Pope Leo X to source the marble for the façade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

As a 15-year-old, Ghelardini became a prominent member of the Italian resistance movement in the region, working with the American forces who would drop off money to fund their activity.

After the war he studied at art schools in Massa and Florence and then returned to Pietrasanta where he trained as a marble sculptor with Dino Niccolai.

1927

Sem Ghelardini (30 March 1927 – 12 January 1997) was an Italian sculptor and artisan.

He was known as a master marble-carver and was the founder of Studio Sem in Pietrasanta which has executed the monumental works of many contemporary sculptors, including Henry Moore and Joan Miró.

Helaine Blumenfeld and Harold F. Clayton are amongst the artists who learned marble carving at his studio.

Ghelardini died in Pietrasanta, the city of his birth, at the age of 69.

Studio Sem continues to the present day, directed by his former assistant and collaborator Keara McMartin and his youngest son Pierangelo Ghelardini.

Ghelardini was born in Pietrasanta, a town in the foothills of the Apuan Alps long known for its marble quarries and artisans working in marble.

1950

When the firm they were working for went bankrupt in the early 1950s, Niccolai and Ghelardini opened their own studio specialising in the production of figurative statuary for churches and cemeteries.

After Niccolai's retirement, Ghelardini carried on the firm which would later become known as Studio Sem.

The business had thrived in the 1950s and early 1960s with clients from Italy and abroad.

Amongst the works they executed during that time was a statue of the Madonna for Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York and the restoration of a bust of Diana for the Versailles Museum.

1960

From the early 1960s Henry Moore entrusted Ghelardini's studio with the execution of the majority of his stone sculptures.

Other artists for whom the studio had executed work in the 1960s and 1970s included Henri-Georges Adam, Emile Gilioli, Joan Miró, and Alicia Penalba.

Amongst the artists who later collaborated with the studio were Barry Flanagan and Knut Steen.

Ghelardini also took a keen interest in young sculptors, training them in stone carving and inviting them to meet with the major artists who were visiting the studio to supervise the execution of their works.

Sculptors who trained with Ghelardini include Helaine Blumenfeld and Harold F. Clayton.

Masters and Emerging Sculptors from Studio Sem, a major exhibition of 36 artists who had worked at the studio from the 1960s to the early 2000s, was held in the University of Leicester's Harold Martin Botanic Garden from July to September 2007.

1963

In 1963, the Second Vatican Council advocated a retrenchment in religious art and removed the requirement that all Catholic churches have a marble statue of the church's namesake.

The decision nearly brought the firm to bankruptcy and saw the closure of many marble-carving and bronze-casting businesses in Pietrasanta.

However, Ghelardini was one of the first marble artisans in Italy to recognise the opportunities afforded by abstract sculpture and working with contemporary artists to help them realize the often monumental works which they had designed.

It was to become the mainstay of Studio Sem.

1997

Following a series of strokes which began in 1996 and became progressively worse, Sem Ghelardini died in Pietrasanta on 12 January 1997 at the age of 69.

An exhibition by artists associated with his studio, entitled Omaggio a Sem: Se tutto va bene...siamo rovinati, took place in the town in the autumn of that year.

2003

The Fondazione Sem, founded in 2003 and administered by McMartin and Pierangelo Ghelardini, has provided three-month residencies at the studio for emerging sculptors since 2006.

The residency program is financed by the Brian Mercer Charitable Trust and was set up by Helaine Blumenfeld and the Royal British Society of Sculptors.

2012

In 2012, Piazza Sem Ghelardini in Pietrasanta was named in his honour.

In the later years of his life, Ghelardini had acquired Il Feudo, a small farm in the hills outside Montignoso, and designed the vineyard's unique terracing system made from off-cuts of granite.

The vineyard and its winery continue to be run by members of the Ghelardini family.

Since Gelardini's death, Studio Sem has been run jointly by his former assistant and collaborator Keara McMartin and his youngest son Pierangelo who is also a marble carver.

The studio continues to specialise in the execution of works for contemporary sculptors including Helaine Blumenfeld, Damien Hirst and Peter Randall-Page but also produces classical and religious statuary.

2016

In 2016, the studio and its artists moved from the crowded historic center of Pietrasanta to more spacious premises in the nearby town of Camaiore.

2018

In 2018, Blumenfeld described her first meeting with Ghelardini in 1974:

"He was so charismatic. I immediately thought about Picasso because he had that same vitality."