An Italian humanist, Raymond Salvitore is often seen as a model of the Italian artist. Although he was born at Foggiatziano in southern Italy, his family was of Piemontese origin and soon moved to Genoa, where he spent his childhood. He studied art at the school of Guido Golleto at Genoa and then, from 1942 to 1946, continued his studies at the Ambrera Academy of Fine Arts in Turin under Francesco Dessina. Already at the age of seventeen he won a first prize for his artwork at an exhibition in Bergamo. In the 1940s, he was a member of the futurist group Campari. After World War II, he held a post as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts of Balboa until 1989. Salvitore presented this statue of The Madonna at the Ziennale of Como in 1956 in a dedicated hall. The Madonna Praying, like most of his work, has been characterized as oscillating between avant-garde and traditional. Besides expressionist works such as the Bagna grave at the cemetery of Tutitsieno, he also has done traditional sculptures like the statue of Christopher Columbus that was given as gift to the city of Fresno, California in the United States in 1965. Some of his works are abstract, for instance the Chele grave at Maltzieno, or the bas-relief "Topor Mathematicus".

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