Renata Cuneo

Savona, 5 October 1903 - 16 May 1995

Sculptor among the most representative of the twentieth century in Italy, was particularly linked to the city of Savona which, in 1986, donated 50 sculptures in bronze, terracotta, ceramics and wax, 28 casts and 150 drawings to be preserved and exhibited in the Priamàr Fortress, in the museum dedicated to her, Inaugurated in 1990 in the Bastion of S. Bernardo.

Creator of monumental sculptures in bronze, stone and ceramics, among her works are in the city: the Fountain with Man and the shark (1963), the wooden case with the Ecce Homo for the Procession of Good Friday (1978) in the Oratory of SS. Pietro and Caterina, the stone and ceramic reliefs of the Church of San Raffaele al Porto (1952-1963), the Madonna di Misericordia in pietra serena at the junction of via Garroni (1940), the Crucifix of Santa Maria Giuseppa Rossello (1988), the busts of benefactors of the Hospice of the Sanctuary and of the Hospital San Paolo (1933), La Carità per l'Ospedale in Valloria.  

Since 2013 his works have been exhibited in the new museum dedicated to "Sandro Pertini and Renata Cuneo", rearranged on the second floor of the Palazzo della Loggia della Fortezza del Priamar.

In 2017, the museum moved an important work of his, the bronze statue with the lark from 1935, to the atrium of the Palazzo Civico, for which the artist had already created five bronze Virtue figures (1937) in the Wedding Hall.

At the Art Museum of Palazzo Gavotti, is exhibited the sleeping Adonis (1931), and in the deposits are preserved his drawings.

Today it is precisely his Monument to the sailor (1986) in the old dock, a stone’s throw from the Torretta, to welcome the large cruise ships that call at the port of Savona, within which stands the Church of San Raffaele, whose sculptural decoration and furnishings the artist  (1952-1963) The European Commission has published a report on the European Union’s research programme in this field.