Column Shafts and Corinthian Capitals 1st-2nd Century A.D. Marble Location: Museum of Montecassino Abbey, Gallery Provenance: Monasteries of San Vincenzo al Volturno, San Liberatore a Maiella e San Pietro Avellana, Reused Material
MONTECASSINO DOV’ERA E COM’ERA
Nel 529 San Benedetto scelse un antico insediamento pagano posto in cima alla collina di Montecassino e vi fondò un monastero. Trasformò il tempio classico in una chiesa dedicata a S. Martino e l’altare pagano in una cappella per S. Giovanni. Del lavoro di San Benedetto, in realtà, oggi non rimane nulla. Nei secoli, l’abbazia […] Read More
Glossario. Le parole dell’arte
Ordine composito è uno stile architettonico romano che unisce il capitello ionico (a volute) e quello corinzio (con le foglie di acanto). Capitello a Stampella è un tipo di capitello che ha approssimativamente la forma di un trapezio. Stiloforo è un aggettivo usato per indicare animali scolpiti in marmo, generalmente leoni come in questo caso, che servono […] Read More
Museo Facile. Experimental Project of Cultural Communication and Accessibility
What is it? Museo Facile is an experimental project of cultural communication and accessibility. In 2012 the Ministero dei Beni e dele Attività Culturali e del Turismo, the Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, and the Soprintendenza alla Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea – Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum started collaborating […] Read More
Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum
What is the Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum? Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum is a house museum that, together with Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea, the Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum, the Mario Praz Museum and the Manzù Museum in Ardea, belongs to the Soprintendenza alla Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea. What can you find in […] Read More
Hendrik Christian Andersen
Who is Hendrik Christian Andersen? Hendrik Christian Andersen is a artist born in Bergen, Norway, in 1872 and died in Rome in 1940. Due to economical issues, immediately after his birth, the family moved to Newport in the United States with his mother Helene Monsen and his elder brother Andreas. In Newport his father […] Read More
The World Centre of Communication
What is the World Centre of Communication? The World Centre of Communication is a project conceived by the sculptor Hendrik Christian Andersen and the architect Ernest Hébrard between 1901 and 1911. The project was presented in a volume published in 1913, titled Creation of a World Centre of Communication. The Centre has never been built: […] Read More
The Fountain of Life
What is The Fountain of Life? The Fountain of Life was supposed to be a multilayers monument, made of many sculptures. Water, symbol of life, had to come out from the top level. The Fountain had to be located in the middle of the World Centre of Communication, the project of City-capital of mankind […] Read More
Morning, Evening, Day, Night
What are Morning, Evening, Day, and Night? Morning, Evening, Day, and Night are 4 sculptural groups that were supposed to be set on the lower terrace of the Fountain of Life and symbolically mean the stages of life. Only plaster models have been made, with the exception of Day cast in bronze at the Fonderia […] Read More
Male Nude and Female Nude with two Little Children on Horse at step, The Prayer
What do the two Nudes and The Prayer represent? Two equestrian statues on high pedestal were symmetrically placed in the lower terrace of the Fountain of Life. These statues depict a male nude and a female nude, each of them put on a horse at step bearing upon their shoulders a baby (F-G). Two more […] Read More
Love, Progress of Humanity, the Joy of Living, the Step
What project do these works belong to? These works were part of the World Centre of Communication and were supposed to be located on the upper terrace of the Fountain of Life. The Joy of Living (K) and The Step (L) were exposed to the public in 1911, on the occasion of the International […] Read More