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Model for the monument to Garibaldi (Modello per il monumento a Garibaldi)

Year:

1894

Dimensions (cm):

275 x 285 x 95

Dimensions (inches):

108.27 x 112.20 x 37.40

Medium:

Sculptures

Material:

plaster

Current location:

Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio: inv. T n. 326

Description Provenance Exhibitions Bibliography

The model in plaster for the monument of Garibaldi was presented by Troubetzkoy at the 2nd Exhibition of the Triennale of Milan in 1894, where the critics acclaimed the model for its anti-commemorative character. B.R. in 1894 states that this model shows Troubetzkoy’s preoccupation of not falling into the usual imitation of equestrian monuments, therefore “over simplifying” its lines. This plaster group is the enlargement of Troubetzkoy’s study of the general for the 1888 competition for Garibaldi’s public monument.

Paul Troubetzkoy (1866-1938), Italy, until 1938;
By descent to the heirs, Rhoda Muriel Marie Somerwell and Luigi Troubetzkoy;
Donated to the Museo del Paesaggio, 1938-1939

Esposizione Triennale della R. Accademia di Brera, Milano 1894, n. 1;
Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 26

B.R., L'Esposizione Triennale di Belle Arti a Milano, in "Il Corriere della Sera"23-24 May 1894, p. 2;
C.B., Le Esposizioni Riunite. La Scultura in "L'Italia del popolo", 19-20 December 1894, p. 2;
G.C.M., La Mostra Triennale di Belle Arti, IV, La scultura in "Lega Lombarda", 24-25 June 1894, p. 2;
Sperani B., Dalle Esposizioni Riunite in "Fanfulla della Domenica", 3 June 1894, p. 2;
Le Esposizioni Riunite di Milano, Milan, 1895, pp. 138, 190-192;
R. Giolli, Paul Troubetzkoy, Milan, 1913, p. 16;
S. Rebora, in Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, exh. cat., Turin, 1990, p. 98-99;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 64