Susanna

After the war, Manzù's sculpture, already germinating in the subtle vibrations of the sorrowful graphic marks of the Passion, explodes in a vitalistic exuberance, which accentuates in a luminous swelling the mellow modulations of the surfaces. But the connected alternations of shadow and light with which the modelling is imbued go beyond the appearances of reality into a poignant and shadowy vibration.