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Ardeatine massacre
The Ardeatine massacre, or Fosse Ardeatine massacre (), was a mass killing carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for the Via Rasella attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome against the SS Police Regiment Bozen.
Subsequently, the Ardeatine Caves site (Fosse Ardeatine) was declared a Memorial Cemetery and National Monument open daily to visitors. Every year, on the anniversary of the slaughter and in the presence of the senior officials of
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Work.
Signorini’s career started in 1937, as declared by the artist himself in his personal file now kept at the ""Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma"". He was the pupil of the sculptor in the ""Scuola dell'Arte della Medaglia"", inside the Mint of Rome.
In 1945 he sculpted a bust in Carrara marble (cm. 80 x 70 x 35) portraying , a victim of the "Fosse Ardeatine" massacre by the German occupation troops in Rome. The work