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, the original preparatory cartoons for La Redenzione dell’Agro (1934), the tempera painting cycle on artificial slate panels decorating the Government Palace of Latina, have found a place, along with the tempera sketches on paper and those in pencil and ink on glossy paper, which tell almost exhaustively the creative process of the great mural cycle. Duilio’s intense sculptural activity is well documented through a large number of works such as Buttero (1918-19), the Plow Oxen (1924), the Plowshare (1925), Peace (1914-1919). The thematic rooms host the 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 Peace (1914-19); the studies for the Sheep Fountain, circa 1930; the large cartoons of the stained glass windows with the Madonna enthroned and the Angels, 1918-19 together 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
