Artist Virginio Ferrari’s bronze sculpture Cylinder in a Prism in the center of the Vanderbilt University Hospital lobby in this undated file photo from the 1980s.
Photos by Erin O. Smith, Susan urmy and Donn Jones
As part of the ongoing renovation of the Vanderbilt University Hospital lobby, the two-story tall, two-ton bronze sculpture Cylinder in a Prism by the artist Virginio Ferrari, which had been at the center of the lobby since the building opened in 1980, has been removed and returned to the sculptor for refurbishment.
Over the course of three days in April (with a one-day break in between), work crews carefully removed the work and used cranes to load it onto a truck for transport to Ferrari’s Chicago studio.
After its refurbishment, the bronze and rosa aurora marble work will later be returned to the university.
VUMC photographers Erin O. Smith, Susan Urmy and Donn Jones documented the sculpture’s removal.
