Monument to Verdi, Milan

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Monument in front of Casa di Riposo per Musicisti

The Monument to Giuseppe Verdi is a bronze sculpture on a plinth located in Piazza Michelangelo Buonarroti in Milan, Italy. The statue stands in front of the Casa di Riposo per Musicisti (nursing home for musicians) which had been founded by Giuseppe Verdi, and where he is buried.

A contest was announced for proposals for a monument, to be judged by a committee named by members of the Brera Academy. [1] Initially the proposal of Antonio Carminati was selected but the sculptor died two years later. His model recalls a more expansive monument such as the 1897 Donizetti Monument by Francesco Jerace, but this time placing a sitting Verdi in the center of a rounded screen, flanked by two musical figures and a linear display of bas reliefs. [2]

The monument dedicated to the Italian opera composer was created by Italian sculptor Enrico Butti and it was inaugurated on 10 October 1913, on the hundredth anniversary of the composer's birth. The work is far less formal than Carminati's project, with Verdi pausing while standing with hands clasped under his jacket behind his back. The base of the statue are four allegorical reliefs: [3]

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References

  1. La Edilizia Moderna (March 1906) Anno XV, Fasc III.
  2. Emporium, Il monumento di Verdi a Milano, Volume 38 (1913); page 318-319.
  3. Club dei 27, entry on monument.

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