Franco Zazzeri Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1938 -

Franco Zazzeri was born in Florence on 19 August 1938. He spent his childhood in Monte San Savino, Arezzo.

At the age of fourteen he started working in a ceramics workshop but, fascinated by sculpture, he moved to Arezzo where he worked with a local marble artist and attended the Aretina art school under the guidance of Giovanni Bianchi sculptures.

At the end of the '50s, commissioned by various Aretine personalities, he made several sculptural portraits; wins the competition for the realization of the statue of the Madonna delle Vertighe (patron of the Autostrada del Sole).

In 1960 he moved to Milan (where he currently lives and works). In the same year he graduated from the Sforza Castle school, sculpture section.