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Serial Number: RAF1904
Status: Display
Description:
In a stunning work by a famous Italian artist, Pietro CANONICA titled "Reflection" The stone base shows some minor chipping the railing where the Nun is leaning has possibly some missing details. The sculpture dimension (Height) x 23 cm (Length) x 15 cm (Depth) x 15 cm.
Artist Information
Pietro Canonica was born on 1st March 1869. His long and prestigious artistic career started at an early age when he became an assistant to Luca Gerosa [it] at age ten. One year later, he was admitted to the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti of Turin, where he was instructed by Enrico Gamba and Odoardo Tabacchi in making sculptures. He was professor of sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (1910) and later at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. He was in the first cadre of members named to the Royal Academy of Italy in 1929, and a member of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (1930).
In 1937, he managed to obtain the concession to renovate Villa Borghese, a 16th-century building owned by the City of Rome and used as administrative offices until it was abandoned in 1919 following a fire. In exchange of the promise to donate his artworks to the city, he was allowed to use the historical building as home and studio, which he repaired and decorated at his own expense. The unusual architectural construction within the Villa Borghese gardens, called also La Fortezzuola , is a museum in 1961 dedicated to his name, exhibiting studies, models, sketches, casts, and original works of the artist. His wife donated the valuable furnishings and paintings found in their private section after her death in 1987.
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, at the age of 90 years old.
