The Resurrection (La Resurrezione) is a bronze and brass sculpture by Pericle Fazzini in the Paul VI Audience Hall in Rome.
Fazzini summarized the action of the statue as "Christ rises from this crater torn open by a nuclear bomb; an atrocious explosion, a vortex of violence and energy.
[3] The commission for the work was ordered by Count Galeassi in 1965; casting began at the Michelucci Art Foundry in Pistoia in 1972; the final sketch was produced in 1975[citation needed] Fazzini created the statue in a workshop in San Lorenzo in Piscibus, during a period when it was deconsecrated.
[3] The original work was done in polystyrene and the fumes of the burning plastic gave Fazzini a blood clot during its production.
Although Fazzini approved of the stamps, Vatican City argued that it had the sole right to reproduce images of the statue and convinced San Marino to cancel them.