page_title: Mario Bernasconi
section_title: Early works and scholarships
hierarchical_section_title: Mario Bernasconi / Biography / Early works and scholarships
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument at cemetery in Pambio Noranco
context_page_description: Mario Bernasconi was a Swiss-Italian sculptor.
context_section_description: Mario obtained the first Federal scholarship that was renewed for three consecutive years:
  
  1921 - the mask La scema (the idiot) 
   
  1922 - the portraits of "Enea" and "Eva".
  1923 - the bust "La giovane madre" Mario with the young Mother
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  He made portraits of his friends, among them Angelo Tonello, the painters Filippo Boldini, Gualtiero Colombo, the writers Vinicio Salati Francesco Manzoni and Silvio Calloni the naturalist from Pazzallo.
  
  He created the head of "Cristo" (Christ) that stands atop the steps of San Pietro Pambio Cemetery, at the center of the big stone cross.
  1923 - His mother became ill and died. A period of inertia followed, but it's the portrait of his mother that brought back his creativity.
  
  1925- At the National Exhibition of Fine Art at the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Federal Government acquired the statue "Il Curato di campagna" (The country Priest) and donated the bronze to the city of Lugano
  The full plaster figure can be seen at the Museum in Pazzallo.
  On June 13, 1926, in New York, on the Daily News of the workers of America, "The New World" in the center of the front page appears the reproduction of the sculpture "Il Martire" (The Martyr) by Mario Bernasconi. It was Giacomo Matteotti, which in New York on that day, the second year of his death was commemorated. Bernasconi later donated this sculpture to the Chamber of Labor in Lugano.
caption: Christ
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