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After a coronavirus closure since March, the Y’s Men of Meriden had their first show with a Zoom guest speaker on September 29. Speaking to the audience of 33 Y’s Men members connected from their home in Port Chester, New York, Lou Del Bianco said. the remarkable story of his grandfather Luigi, who was the only master sculptor of the structure of Mount South Dakota. Rushmore National Monument.
Using a PowerPoint presentation and featuring an Italian accent, Del Bianco first explained how his grandfather, a stone-for-trade carter, left Italy in 1892 for the United States, a six-week boat trip, before emigrating in 1920 across Ellis Island. Gutzon Borglum, who created the design of the sculpture and oversaw the task from 1927 to 1941, and hired to sculpt refinements on presidential faces, the most complicated facet of all sculptures. This skill point required a higher salary ($1. 50/h) than it earned. through other sculptors and workers.
The total commission began with the aiming (making exact copies of the small length of the factors of the sculpture), followed by blasts (with dynamite to be done perfectly), drilling, honeycomb and despite the whole end of the work. face made through Del Bianco. The work was only imaginable during the gentle six months of each year, unimaginable during snow and winter ice. The heads of the 4 presidents (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln) are about 60 feet high, carved in granite; portions of the entire sculpture are up to 500 feet tall. Workers had to climb 607 steps each day to access the site; they then worked from suspended scaffolding for blasting and drilling.
Surprisingly, Del Bianco gained little popularity for his art – that is, until his grandson Lou recently started a successful project to correct this curious oversight: an exhibition in the mountains. Rushmore is right to make this mistake today. Lou recently wrote “Out of the Shadow of Rushmore: The Luigi Del Bianco Story”, pointing to this journey.
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