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Yellow FERVOR

iuseppe Ducrot spends much time in his Rome studio getting to know popes and saints, emperors, kings, the occasional angel, even Hercules, Minerva, and other figures from mythology. In fact, it is Ducrot himself who breathes artistic life into these personages through the creation of his three-dimensional ceramics. Although these figures mostly occupy his imagination rather than the actual space in which he works daily, the sculptor does continue to receive commissions from real-life entities at the Vatican,

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