Vittoriano
With the dismantling of the scaffolding of the Altar of the Fatherland finished, the monument is once again visible to the eyes of the thousands of people who daily visit the monument to Vittorio Emanuele II and cross the central Piazza Venezia.
The lengthy restoration campaign, which began in March, has pursued three fundamental objectives: the material preservation of the work, which twenty-three years after the last restoration was in a critical condition due to exposure to weathering and pollution; restoring legibility to Zanelli's marble frieze; and gaining knowledge about how the work was executed.
To celebrate the completion of the work on October 26 the exhibition "Angelo Zanelli and the Altar of the Fatherland” will be open in the Sala Zanardelli of the Vittoriano.
The exhibition will show to the public for the first time a selection of plaster casts from the Gipsoteca del Vittoriano and works that have arrived on loan from private collectors and other museum institutions, such as the Brescia Musei Foundation.
The exhibition, curated by Professor Valerio Terraroli, allows visitors to retrace the entire story of the famous monument, crossing the outcomes of documentary research with the new findings from the restoration. The itinerary includes an immersive room that allows visitors to live an immersive experience by entering both the inauguration ceremony of the Vittoriano in 1911 and Zanelli's frieze itself.
The exhibition is free admission and will remain open until February 25. For more information click here.
