by www.orvietonews.it
He left last night at the age of 78 years, Marcello Conticelli, Orvieto great artist, member of a historical figure that today the old craft Our city can only recall with nostalgia. Person of great humanity, the artist who brought the world the name of Orvieto, Conticelli can be considered one of the greatest craftsmen of Orvieto in the art of wrought iron. Accompanied
in his life by a deep religious faith, Conticelli has built around himself a wonderful family now mourns the death of a man who has done the history of Orvieto.
to his figure, his works and his life, last year was dedicated to a volume by his son Robert and niece Silvia, published by the company Intermedia, "between a rock and Marcello - Life and work of the blacksmith Pope. " The book, in addition to retrace his personality and his work, is a cross-section of artistic and social life of Orvieto from the fifties to the present day, with references and anecdotes that draw the figures and personalities of famous Orvieto in the recent past, such as Maurizio Ravelli , Lea and Alberto Pacini Stramaccioni and this without neglecting seventy years of artistic craftsmanship in Orvieto, in Umbria and the world.
Marcello realized Conticelli in 1964 the valuable gold chalice donated by the city of Orvieto with Pope Paul VI during his historic visit to the cliff. The article was later donated by the Pope at the Cathedral of Bombay, where is still preserved, and the gesture on the occasion of the Pope's visit to India, was accompanied by these words: "The Church poorest of the world intend to do free work had it in the most precious gift to be when I sit on the throne of Peter. "
