Roberto Barni

His works, exhibited also in Rome in 1963, included paintings, photographs, casts, sculptures and topographies.

Among his public works are the Giro del Sole statuary group in Pistoia and I passi d’oro (The Golden Strides) monument high on a wall on the right side of the Uffizi building on Via dei Georgofili in Florence, in memory of the five deaths of the Uffizi bombing in 1993.

For the unveiling of the monument in 2013, he stated:[2] “From the first moment [...] I wanted to create a work that, rather than simply remembering those who are no longer with us, evokes them in life.

I thought that, on top of a blade that symbolizes death, there should be a figure, like Victory or Nike, who carries the five golden figures along with its decisive stride, remembering these human beings in the fullness of life, in their homes, walking their streets.

[...] A figure who symbolizes art, whose wanderings are constantly driven by a desire to continue its journey, who has unexpectedly found itself here on the highest wall of one of the world's most important places under threat from barbarity”