RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS

Since 1950s

 

The religious theme could not be lacking in the production of an artist like Fiume who had trained himself at the great Italian pictorial tradition, so rich in religious subjects. In 1975 Fiume was asked by Mons. Pasquale Macchi, the private secretary to Pope Paul VI, to paint a crucifixion for the collection of religious art that he was collecting among the most important contemporary artists, in honour of the Pope. Today that painting is in the Latin Study of Pope Sixtus IV in the Vatican Palaces. Also, a Deposition by Fiume has been at the Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg since 1991, when Fiume held a large exhibition in Moscow. Also, a large mosaic by him is in the Annunciation Basilica of Nazareth, in the Holy Land.