14/01/2025
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We are so honoured that the Victoria and Albert Museum - London now holds this beautiful work by Romano Vio. Victoria and Albert Museum
"This bozzetto made in bronze functioned as an early model for Vio's monument to the Italian composer Umberto Giordano in Foggia (completed 1961). Vio received this commission in 1956 after winning a National Competition. His innovative winning entry included a plaster bozzetto for the composer's famous opera, Mese Mariano. Vio subsequently cast the bozzetto in bronze, and it remained in the family's possession until it was gifted to the V&A in 2023.
Vio produced this initial model and the subsequent components of the monument in his studio in Venice - Sestiere of Dorsoduro - which was kindly made available to the artist by the Sammartini family and was located in the walled garden of their palazzo on the Grand Canal. The place of production for this object later became the studio of the female painter and sculptor Marta Sammartini (1900-1954), with whom Vio collaborated"
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1769539/bozzetto-for-mese-mariano-bozzetto-vio-romano/
