Vir Temporis Acti

Thanks to documentary information, this artwork is now dated between 1910 and 1911. In this period the sculptor Adolfo Wildt achieved new stylistic results: the twisted anatomic delirium, the Hellenistic and Baroque spirit alongside the tecnhical virtuosity express Wildt’s way to deeply investigate the collective unconscious and the world of the irrational. The sculpture was purchased in 1987 by Franco Maria Ricci, who helped make the artist even more recognized thanks to a splendid monograph edited by Paola Mola and published in 1988 in the series “The Signs of Man”.