Opened at the end of 2005, the Cambellotti Museum is housed in the former Opera Nazionale Balilla building in Piazza San Marco, designed in 1932 by Oriolo Frezzotti. Thanks to donations from the children of the great Roman sculptor, set designer, and illustrator, the collection in Latina has become the most important documentation on the artist. In the large central hall, the original preparatory cartoons for La Redenzione dell’Agro (1934) have been placed, the tempera painting cycle on artificial slate panels that decorates the Government Palace of Latina, together with the tempera sketches on paper and those in pencil and ink on glossy paper, which almost exhaustively recount the creative process of the great mural cycle. Duilio’s intense sculptural activity is well documented through a large number of works such as Il Buttero (1918–19), Le Vacche Aratrici (1924), Il Vomere (1925), La Pace (1914–1919). The thematic rooms house numerous sketches illustrating how and to what extent Cambellotti conceived his sculptural work from an architectural perspective. Among these are preparatory studies for the War Memorials of Priverno, Terracina (1919), and Borgo Hermada (1959); the two plaster reliefs with the Allegory of Justice; the dark wax version of Peace (1914–19); the studies for the Sheep Fountain, circa 1930; the large cartoons for the stained glass windows with the Madonna on the throne and the Angels, 1918–19, along with numerous painted ceramics and terracottas.
Information about the Duilio Cambellotti Museum
Piazza S. Marco,
04100 Latina (Latina)
0773486913
musei@comune.latina.it
https://www.comune.latina.it
Source: MIBACT
