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museum of pIetrO canonica in
villa
borghese
( Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese )
The
Museum is housed in the building called "Fortezzuola"
which means small fort.
It was
established at the end of the eighteenth century during
restoration work in Villa Borghese which had
been commissioned by Prince Marcantonio I.
As a
result of the passing of the Villa to the
City of Rome at the beginning of the twentieth century,
the building was given in concession in 1926 to sculptor,
painter and musician Pietro Canonica (Moncalieri
1869 - Rome 1959), who made it his own home-study:
the ground floor was expanded to accommodate the laboratory,
while the upper floor was furnished with valuable pieces
of furniture, Flemish tapestries and paintings.
At the
time of his death, the artist gave the City all the
works gathered over the years, so that a museum
named after him could be built: in 1960 the artist's
collection of sculptures was thus opened to the public
(originals in marble and bronze, sketches in plaster
and terracotta, life-size models in plaster) mostly
inspired by the porta it genre, the favorite field of
the artist, and partly by the commemorative genre with
works in memory of the fallen of the Great Warand
funeral monuments .
Among
the many works by the artist exhibited in the seven
rooms of the museum, there are also the models
for the monuments dedicated to tsars Alexander I
and Nicholas 11, these are particularly interesting
in that the originals were destroyed during the revolution
of 1917, the marble bust of Donna Franca Florio
and the portrait of princess Emily Doria Pamphili,
the plaster model of the equestrian monument to Simon
Bolivar.
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