Making the puppets        

Maria making  the Chorus for Antigone

(1931)

on the set of the short film, 

Largo al Factotum

(from the Barber of Seville )

directed by Ferdinando Cerchio (1947)

the dragon and the knight

for Little Puppets by A. Casella

(1949)

Maria contructing a plaster model for a mask,Rome (1950s)

the construction of the Greedy Dragon

(1950)

Maria during a tour to Paris

Maria costructing the doll for the

  Boite à joujoux

(1954)

Maria shaping a papier-maché head for Romeo,  

  Romeo and Juliet

(1957)

with her puppet Romeo 

(1957) 

in her studio, Maria creating a daisy  for 

The Waltz of the Flowers (P.I.Tchaikovsky)

(1960)

Maria creating puppets for

Dante's Inferno

(1982)

Maria with her puppets, Rome

(1990)

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