Pietro Canonica
Pietro Canonica | |
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Movement | Realism |
Patron(s) | Enrico Gamba, Odoardo Tabacchi |
Pietro Canonica (1 March 1869 – 8 June 1959) was an Italian
.Biography
He was born in
He initially adhered to the traditions of
He gained big success in the official environment of Turin for his civic and religious monuments. Following the formative period in Turin, he moved in 1922 to Rome, and participated in important national and international exhibitions in Milan, Rome, Venice, Paris, London, Berlin, Dresden, Monaco, Brussels and Saint Petersburg, and received official recognition. Commissioned by Italian and foreign aristocracy in European courts, Canonica created portraits and commemorative works. The master of
He was professor of sculpture at the
In 1937, he managed to obtain the concession to renovate
Canonica was also an accomplished musician and composed the operas La sposa di Corinto (1918), Miranda (1937), Enrico di Mirval, Impressioni, Sacra Terra and Medea (1959).
In 1950, Italian President Luigi Einaudi nominated him life senator for his outstanding artistic achievements. Canonica died on June 8, 1959, in Rome.[1]
Gallery
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Monument of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Anıtı) in İstanbul, Turkey
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Vittorio Emanuele III, 1938
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Isma'il Pasha Statue in Alexandria, Egypt
Selected artwork
- Monument of an Artilleryman (marble and bronze, 1930) and a Cavalry soldier (bronze, 1923), both in Turin
- Bust of King Edward VII of England in Buckingham Palace, London, England (marble, 1903)
- Bust of Donna Franca Florio (marble, 1903–1904)
- Bust of princess Emily Doria-Pamphili in Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome (marble, 1904)
- Monument to Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, Saint Petersburg, Russia (1913, destroyed in 1918 during the revolution)
- Model for the monument to Tsar Alexander II of Russia on horseback in Petrodvorets, Saint Petersburg, Russia (plaster, 1912–1914)
- Monument to Ankara Ethnography Museum, Ankara, Turkey (1927)
- Monument to Atatürk in military uniform at Zafer Square, Ankara, Turkey (bronze and marble, 1927)
- Monument to Atatürk on horseback at Cumhuriyet (Republic) Square, İzmir, Turkey (bronze and marble, 1927)
- Monument of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Anıtı) at Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey (bronze and marble, 1928)
- Monument to Benedict XV in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican (bronze and marble, 1928)
- Monument to Khedive Ismail, Alexandria, Egypt (1935)
- Tomb of Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Rome (1935)
- Monument to Pius XI in the Lateran Palace, Rome (marble, 1941–1949)
- Monument to King Faysal I of Iraqon horseback, Baghdad, Iraq
- Monument to Simón Bolívar, Bogotá, Colombia
- Doors for the abbeys of Casamari(1959) near Rome
- "Il Tevere" fountain sculpture in the Centre William Rappard, Geneva, Switzerland (bronze, 1926)
Musical works
- La sposa di Corinto, opera in 3 acts, libretto by Carlo Bernardi (after Goethe), Rome, Teatro Argentina, 25 May 1918
- Miranda, opera in 3 acts, libretto by Carlo Bernardi and Pietro Canonica (after Casinò Municipale di Sanremo, 5 March 1937
- Enrico di Mirval, ovvero Amore è vita, opera, libretto by the composer, Sanremo, Teatro del Casinò Municipale, 1939
- Medea, tragedia lirica in 3 acts, libretto by the composer, (after Euripides), Rome, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, 12 May 1953
- Sacra Terra, dramma lirico in 1 prologue and 3 acts, libretto by the composer (after Virgil's Aeneid), composed in 1957
- Impressioni, symphonic poem
Bibliography
- Elena Lissoni, Pietro Canonica, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA.
References
- ^ "Biographical Sketch of Pietro Canonica | Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese". www.museocanonica.it. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
External links
- Francesco Negri Arnoldi: "Canonica, Pietro", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 18 (1975) (in Italian, accessed 5 October 2013)
- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Performances of operas by Pietro Canonica". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- Museo Pietro Canonica website
- City of Rome
- MyTravelGuide
- Virtual Tourist
- Who is who? (in Turkish)
- Art Net