1. Life

2. Bibliography of art works

3. Awards and prizes

4. See also

5. References

6. External links

Life

Paço studied first in his home town and then at the high school in Thessaloniki, Greece. Afterwards he entered the Athens School of Fine Arts in Athens. During his studies, Paço worked and studied with the Greek modern sculptor Costandinos Dimitriadis, himself a student of Auguste Rodin, and others.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}

He went to Albania in 1941.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} After World War II, he worked as a sculpture teacher in Artistic Lyceum "Jordan Misja" in Tirana, where he would teach all his life until retirement.

Paço was one of the founders of the Albanian sculpture school and tradition.^[4]

In addition to his realistic sculptures, Paço created also many nude sculptures during the 1960s and 1970s, and was obliged to destroy them, fearing punishment from the Communist Regime.^[3] During this time he was criticized by other members of the Albanian League of Writers and Artists. This led him to gradually dissociate himself from the League.^[3]

Bibliography of art works

Main part of his work:

• The monument of Skanderbeg in Krujë (started in 1949; finished in 1959), which was later copied in Pristina, Kosovo, after the 1998–1999 Kosovo War.^[4]
• The monument of Skanderbeg (1968), today in "Scanderbeg Square" in Tirana, where he co-worked with the first Albanian sculptor Odhise Paskali and Andrea Mano
• Two statues of Fan Noli, and one of Alexander Moissi (1960s)
• The Gladiators (1973) (3.5 m), anticipated to be placed at the entrance of the ancient Durrës Amphitheatre in Durrës^[2]
• The sculptural group Skanderbeg with the People (1982), which is placed in the entrance of the Skanderbeg Museum in Krujë

Awards and prizes

• In 1984, he was awarded the title People's Artist of Albania.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
• At the exhibition "Spring '90" at the National Art Gallery of Albania, Paço won first prize with his art work Girl's Portrait ({{lang-sq|Portret vajze}}), which one year earlier (before the Fall of Communism in Albania) was prohibited to be exhibited inside the gallery as a "modern art work".{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}

See also

• Ibrahim Kodra
• List of Albanians
• List of sculptors
• Modern Albanian art

References

External links

• List of Articles from Albanian Library Bksh.al
• shqiperia.com
• {{YouTube|LuyhXPMe2Qs|Albanian Screen Tv – Nikolin Kurti talks about Gladiators of J.P}}
• {{YouTube|H4I_YSKTeLQ|Short Documentary by Fatos Morina about the Monument of Skanderbeg in Krujë – Tv Arbëria}}

• Ernest Charles Nelson
• Ernest Charles Pollard
• Ernest Chinnery
• Ernest C. Hornsby
• Ernest Cimon
• Ernest Claes
• Ernest Clark (governor)
• Ernest Clayton Andrews
• Ernest Clements
• Ernest Cline
• Ernest Cluett
• Ernest Cognac Museum
• Ernest Cognacq Museum
• Ernest Coleman
• Ernest Cole (photographer)
• Ernest Collett
• Ernest Cook
• Ernest Cook (philanthropist)
• Ernest Corbett
• Ernest Corey
• Ernest Cossart
• Ernest Cosson
• Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld
• Ernest courtot de cissey
• Ernest Coutot de Cissey