Romano Dazzi

In 1936 Italian painter Romano Dazzi won a silver medal in the Art Competitions of the Berlin Olympic Games for his Quattro bozzetti per affreschi (Four Sketches for Frescoes). He was the son of the well-known sculptor and painter Arturo Dazzi, and demonstrated an exceptional gift for drawing from earliest childhood. In 1923, Dazzi was sent to Libya by the Italian Government to document military operations and perform colonial subject drawings, where he discovered his passion for the African world and in particular his love for animal painting, a passion that remained a constant in his artistic production. After the war Dazzi, who lived in Firenze, was no longer acknowledged. Around 1930 he produced frescoes for the Fascist Sports Academy in Roma, submitting the respective sketches at the 1932 art competitions. From a sporting point of view, the mistakes in the athletes’ movements were criticized.