Medardo Rosso
After completing a portrait of a child of the Mond family in 1906 Rosso stopped making sculpture completely. Most scholars considered this as an ‘inactive’ period of Rosso’s life. However, Francesco Bacci in her essay Sculpting the immaterial, modelling the light: presenting Medardo Rosso’s photographic oeuvre, suggests otherwise. “From 1906 until his death in 1928, he focused intently on writing…