Guido Razzi

1934-2020 – Roma (Italy)

Guido Razzi was born in 1934 in Rome where he lived and worked.

He graduated from San Giacomo School of Art in Rome in drawing and etching, so for years he dedicated himself to the study of the figure, frequenting constantly the International Academy of the Nude.

Innumerable exhibitions presented in Italy and abroad…

always received with ample enthusiasm from the public and the critics whether painting, graphic work, watercolour or pastels.

The celebrated artist Bolaffi 1977 collaborated, with originale designs, in the monthly magazine “Pace e Guerra”, directed by Luciana Castellina, Claudio Napoleoni, Stefano Rodotà, which also published a beautiful essay by Massimo Cacciari on Guido Razzi.

Frequent and intense was his collaboration with “Civiltà delle Macchine” (Civilization of Machines), a bimonthly magazine of contemporary culture, directed by Francesco D’Arcais, with original works on the cover and inside.

He has illustred the important artistic volumes published by Dino Editore of Rome, entitled “Roma”, in which is contained a Roman composition, “The Pope of Future Days” in which appears o portrait of Pope John XXIII.

For Manzella publishers of Rome, he created 16 designs for “The Gospels”, traslation of Niccolò Tommaseo; For Newton Compton publishers of Rome, he illustrated “People at Babuino” of Ugo Moretti and for La Palma publishers of Naples, “Janua” of Nino Piccione.
Among the numerous books released with his illustrations, these are presented: “Desaparecidos en la Argentina”, Clamor Editore, Brasile; “ Ninoza”, Bora publishers, Bologna; “Dedalo”di M. Cristini, Del Giano publishers, Rome, ecc.

A permantent exhibition of works is present at the Museum of Contemporary Art of “Castello di Montesegale (Pv)”

In portraiture, appear persons in the field of art, of culture and the scientific world: Ruggiero Jannuzzelli, Giuseppe Zanini, Carlo Castellaneta, Massimo Cacciari, Italo Evangelisti, Ruggero Orlando, Alessandro Manzoni, Renzo Vespignani, fra’ Nazareno Fabbretti, Pio X, Gregorio VII, padre Luigi Maria Monti, L. Grandina, R. Cavalieri, Totò, Anna Magnani, Ugo Moretti, Edolo Masci, Giovanni Omiccioli, Virna Lisi, Alberto Sughi, Alba Parietti, Mara Venier.

The following have written about him:

Francesco Alberoni, Vito Apuleo, Renzo Biasion, Massimo Cacciari, Carlo Castellaneta, Renato Civello, Francesco d’Arcais, Gualtiero Da Vià, Mario de Candia, Italo Evangelisti, Nazareno Fabbretti, Simone Gatto, Guido Giuffrè, Domenico Guzzi, Virgilio Guzzi, Ruggiero ]annuzzelli, Guido della Martora, Elio Mercuri, Dario Micacchi, Ugo Moretti, Vittoria Palazzo, Tommaso Paloscia, Vittorio Scorza, Alberto Scotti, Bernardo Taddei, Luigi Tallarico, Renzo Vespignani, Gemma Zampini Pera.