Author: Domenico Mazzullo (Mazzarino, 1913 - Rome, 1988)
Subject: Bust of a girl with a veil
Material and technique: Carved white marble
Dimensions: Height 37 cm
The work presents itself as a delicate psychological study of a youthful face, characterized by a soft and highly sensitive plastic rendering. Mazzullo chooses to wrap the girl's head in a light cloth, which frames her face and falls along her shoulders with natural folds, creating a chiaroscuro effect that enhances the purity of the marble.
The expressive focus lies in the intensity of the gaze: the eyes, deeply recessed and precisely defined, give the sculpture an air of deep reflection or melancholic anticipation. The detail of the slightly parted lips and the naturalistic rendering of the strands of hair escaping the veil testify to the author's technical mastery in treating stone as if it were living flesh.
