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	Corrado Parducci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Corrado Giuseppe Parducci ( March 10, 1900 - November 22, 1981) was an American architectural sculptor.
		Parducci was apprenticed to architectural sculptor Ulysses Ricci in 1917.
		The last commission Parducci completed was a portrait of architect Henry Hobson Richardson in a Romanesque setting that was carved on a lintel in the Senate chamber of the New York Capitol in Albany, New York in 1980.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corrado_Parducci (253 words)

	Corrado Parducci Oral History Interview Conducted by Dennis Barrie for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CORRADO PARDUCCI: And that was my playground, that and Washington Square, and also MacDougall Alley, where all the sculptors and all the great, you know, Saint-Gaudens and [Daniel Chester—Ed.] French, you know, that generation are all in that area.
		CORRADO PARDUCCI: And Donnelly discovered that, see, and threw him out of the—it was a criminal offense to begin with; it was a crime against the corporation—so Richie was thrown out of Donnelly and Richie, and the nephew of course moved out.
		CORRADO PARDUCCI: Well, I made this originally, I made a number of figures for the rotunda when it was built for the World’s Fair in Chicago, and one day a bunch of crates arrived at the studio.
	www.aaa.si.edu /oralhist/parduc75.htm (15044 words)

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	Parducci Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Corrado Giuseppe Parducci — he preferred “Joe” — was born in 1900, one of 13 children.
		Corrado spent about 18 months in a Catholic orphanage while his father earned the money to bring the rest of the family to America.
		Parducci was only supposed to be in Detroit for a “couple of months.
	www.dwsd.org /history/Parducci_bio.htm (558 words)

	Detroit Zoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The onset of the Great Depression brought to a halt additional major projects, but expansion resumed in the 1940s and has periodically continued since then.
		In 1939, sculptor Corrado Parducci created the Horace Rackham Memorial Fountain, popularly known as "the Bear Fountain." The memorial was one of four major donations made by Mary Rackham in the memory of her late husband Horace, the other three being college buildings named after him in Detroit, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan.
		The zoo participates in numerous Species Survival Plans (35 species in 2004), helping preserve critically endangered species.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Detroit_Zoo (423 words)

	Corrado Parducci - Result for Corrado Parducci - Meaning of Corrado Parducci - Definition of Corrado Parducci - ...
		Image:GuardianBuildingCP.jpg thumb128pxGuardian Building, Detroit, Michigan '''Corrado Giuseppe Parducci''' ( March 10, 1900 - November 22, 1981) was an American architect ural sculptor.
		Image:Rackham Fountain-Det Zoo.jpg thumb150pxRackham Fountain, Detroit Zoo Parducci was apprenticed to architectural sculptor Ulysses Ricci in 1917.
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	www.mauspfeil.net /Corrado_Parducci.html (372 words)

	Springwells Public Art - DWSD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An architectural historian from New Mexico, Kvaran has been documenting the works of Corrado Parducci, an architectural sculptor whose carvings are as much a part of Detroit as is Diego Rivera’s Ford Rouge mural at the DIA.
		Better known as “Joe” to his friends and admirers, Corrado Guiseppe Parducci (1900-81) was born in the tiny Tuscan village of Buti in Italy.
		Many of Parducci’s commissions, for buildings that had not yet broken ground, were cancelled, and his jobs became fewer and farther between.
	www.dwsd.org /history/springwells.htm (641 words)

	Encyclopedia: Albert Kahn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1928, the Fisher building was honored by the Architecture League of New York as the year's most beautiful commercial structure.
		A frequent collaborator with Kahn was architectural sculptor Corrado Parducci.
		In all Parducci worked on about 50 Kahn commissions including banks, office buildings, newspaper buildings, mausoleums, hospitals and private residences.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Albert-Kahn (759 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Once one of Detroit's finest apartment hotels, the building has sat vacant since the City of Detroit ended the Seinor citizens housing that was in the building.
		The building has been stripped of almost all of its architectural ornamentation, which was done by noted sculptuer Corrado Parducci.
		Some of the stolen Lion's Heads were returned to Detroit from Chicago, however several heads are still unaccounted for as are the sculputres which were over the front doors.
	www.internationalmetropolis.com /detroit/detroitpics/hotels/leeplaza.htm (121 words)

	Corrado Parducci Mural, Midland, MI
		Originally executed by Corrado Parducci in 1942 for installation in the grand entrance to The Midland Theater, the Parducci Mural depicts the history of Midland, Michigan in bas-relief plaster.
		Twenty-six feet long and twelve feet high, the mural was cast in sections in Parducci's Detroit studio, and installed in the theater soon after the United States entered W.W.II.
		The mural's subject matter includes: Native Americans, loggers, farmers, Dow Chemical Company factory workers (Dow's Chemical headquarters is in Midland), as well as planes, trains, and covered wagons.
	www.bldgconservation.com /parducci.htm (296 words)

	Who Built That? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Book Brothers built the 13 story office building in 1917, and commissioned the 36 story tower in 1926, using both times their preferred architect Louis Kamper.
		Noted Detroit architectural sculptor Corrado Parducci did some work on the Book Tower.
		There was supposed to be a second and even larger 81 story Book Tower attached to the south end of the project, that was killed with the onset of the great depression.
	whobuiltthat.com (1232 words)

	UMS \| About UMS \| Our Venues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Even more remarkable than the size of the gift, which is still considered one of the most ambitious ever given to higher-level education, is the fact that neither of the Rackhams ever attended the University of Michigan.
		Designed by architect William Kapp and architectural sculptor Corrado Parducci, Rackham Auditorium was quickly recognized as the ideal venue for chamber music.
		In 1941, the Musical Society presented its first chamber music festival with the Musical Art Quartet of New York performing three concerts in as many days, and the current Chamber Arts Series was born in 1963.
	www.ums.org /secondary/about/our_venues.htm (1383 words)

	Michigan Historical Marker: The Players (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Players, a Detroit gentlemen's amatuer theatre club founded in 1911, opened this playhouse in 1926.
		The handsome building was created by club members William E. Kapp, architect, Corrado Parducci, stone sculptor, and Paul Honore, muralist.
		The playhouse, built in the style of the sixteenth-century English Renaissance, was one of the earliest major structures in the area to use cinder block laid in ashlar on its interior walls to give the appearance of cut stone.
	www.michmarkers.com /Pages/L1262.htm (87 words)

	Wirt Rowland Exhibit Introduction
		Corrado Parducci (decorative sculpture), Pewabic and Rookwood tile companies (decorative and structural tile), Gorham Foundry (Monel metal gates and elevator doors),
		Thomas DiLorenzo (decorative painting and stenciling), and Ezra Winter (mural and mosaics).
		The Kirk in the Hills is a distillation of Rowland’s sketches and ideas, and by including the tiles of Pewabic Pottery and sculpture of Corrado Parducci, brings together some of the collaborators from Rowland’s greatest achievements.
	www.wirtrowland.org /intro.htm (1855 words)

	Untitled Document
		The time between the start of the Great Depression and the end of the Korean War appears to be a fallow one for public art in Detroit.
		Notable exceptions include the Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain, 1936, by Marshall Fredricks on Belle Isle and the Horace H. Rackham Memorial Fountain, 1939, by Corrado Joseph Parducci at the Detroit Zoo.
		These works are executed in a reserved neoclassical style and located in idyllic sites removed from the "mean streets" of Detroit.
	www.thedetroiter.com /site/publicsculpture.html (1552 words)

	NederlanderDetroit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Appearing on the Michigan Historical Register and the National Register, the Masonic is one of the largest and finest theatrical houses in the country.
		It has a seating capacity of 4,404, and the ornate theatre and building were designed by architect George D. Mason and Company and master sculptor Corrado Parducci.
		Since its opening in 1926 by the Masonic fraternity, the Masonic Temple Theatre has hosted virtually all forms of live entertainment, including plays, musicals, variety shows, classical music and opera, rock-n-roll and dance.
	www.nederlanderdetroit.com /masonic/history.htm (164 words)

	LEGENDnyc - Visitor's Page
		The family story I heard is that my Grandmother Florinda Parducci, who was married to Carlo Parducci didn't like Carlo's family so they never got together except when Carlo visited his brother Angelo Parducci taking along his son, Carlo Jr.
		Since I lived in NYC until I was 11 and the rest of the time in NJ,now I am 46, I don't have a clue why I never met his kids.
		Comments : I noticed from your web page that you are a musician-- so am I. I have been told that some Parducci relatives of Corrado Parducci (the architectural sculptor who lived in Michigan) were violinists- brothers- one of whom, Frank, had a dance band in Switzerland.
	www.legendnyc.com /visitors.htm (10005 words)

	Poopsheet Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The quality of art varies from piece to piece, but there’s some really good stuff, including work by Gianluca Pagliarani, Nik Guerra (sort of a manga/Bill Ward hybrid) and Rossi Cristian (reminds me of Scotland’s John Miller).
		There are also covers and pin-ups of Djustine by folks like Don Marquez, Frank Brunner, Mike Hoffman, Corrado Mastantuono and Sam Glanzman.
		My two favorite things in #11 are Matt Holdaway’s seemingly-autobiographical account of a trip to Florida and Justin Grimbol’s ‘Mr.
	poopsheet.blogspot.com /2003_01_01_poopsheet_archive.html (11162 words)

	Rackham Graduate School: Rackham History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was an age, also, when expert craftsmen were still available.
		Elements such as the sculpted forms of the building's facade, the exquisite bronze window casings and the relief work in the interior, are the work of Corrado Parducci, an architectural sculptor trained in his native Italy, who collaborated often with Kapp.
		Together they recreated a number of classical forms.
	www.rackham.umich.edu /History/building.html (2162 words)

	World Cup USA '94 - Host City Information: Detroit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The theater was crafted by many of the same artisans who built Meadow Brook Hall.
		The exterior of the building is art deco, featuring Mankato stone columns and details of Greek masks sculpted in terra cotta by Italian sculptor Corrado Parducci, whose work also graces the Guardian Building and Diego Rivera Court at The Detroit Institute of Arts.
		Entertainers who have performed here include: Lucille Ball, Leonard Bernstein, W.C. Fields, Jack Benny, Maurice Chevalier, Martha Graham, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Cleo Laine, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Ginger Rodgers, Liilian Helman and Julie Harris.
	www.oslo.net /sp/fvm/hosts/detroit/musichal.html (350 words)

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