Inaugurated at the end of 2005, the Cambellotti Museum is located in the former Opera Nazionale Balilla of Piazza San Marco, designed in 1932 by Oriolo Frezzotti. Thanks to the 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 are the original preparatory cartoons for La Redenzione dell’Agro (1934), the pictorial cycle made with tempera on panels of artificial slate that decorates the Government Palace of Latina, together with the tempera sketches on paper and those in pencil and ink on glossy paper, which tell the creative process of the great mural cycle almost exhaustively. Duilio’s intense sculptural activity is well documented through a large number of works such as Buttero (1918-19), Vacche aratrici (1924), Vomere (1925), Pace (1914-1919). The thematic rooms host numerous sketches that illustrate how and to what extent Cambellotti intended his sculptural activity in an architectural key. Among these are the preparatory studies for the Monument to the Fallen of Priverno, of Terracina (1919) and Borgo Hermada (1959); the two plaster reliefs with the Allegory of Justice; the dark wax version of Pace (1914-19); the studies for the Fontanile delle pecore, circa 1930; the large cartoons for the stained glass windows with the Madonna enthroned and the Angels, 1918-19, along with numerous ceramics and painted terracottas.
Information about Museo Duilio Cambellotti
Piazza S. Marco,
04100 Latina (Latina)
0773486913
musei@comune.latina.it
https://www.comune.latina.it
Source: MIBACT
