Museo Civico Duilio Cambellotti Latina

Opened in late 2005, the Cambellotti Museum is located at the building of the former National Opera Balilla of Piazza San Marco. Thanks to the donations of the sons of the great sculptor, set designer and illustrator Roman, the collection of Latina has become the most important documentation about the artist. There are preserved sculptures, drawings, gouaches, woodcuts, ceramics, books, medals, posters and documents, which document in an almost exhaustive about half a century by the Roman empire in the Pontine territory. In the atrium of the museum welcomes visitors the monumental source of the Marsh, a great creation in bronze cast in 1984 from the original 1912 plaster, representing a group of mares who is drinking from a fountain. The large central hall houses the original preparatory cartoons for The Redemption of Agro (1934), the series of paintings made in tempera on artificial slate panels decorating the Palace of Government of Latin America, together with tempera sketches on paper and those in pencil and ink on glossy paper, which highlight the creative path of the great mural. Along the walls are exposed original ink drawings for the volume Customs and traditions of the Roman Campagna (1924), the so-called Pontini drawings in charcoal and pencil (1910-20), together with numerous studies in pen and pencil for some scenes of the movie Augustus Genina Heaven over the marshes (1948). The intense Duilio sculptural activity is well documented through works of large and small format. Podium of the large main room, they found the place solemn and mysterious Buttero (1918-19), the extraordinary aratrici Cows (1924), the mighty Ploughshares (1925), together with the Peace (or The Wandering), dating back to 1914 -19.

The thematic rooms contain numerous sketches - sometimes actual finished works - illustrating the various phases of the project and the many "second thoughts" needed to reach the final performance, the executive. Among these are preparatory studies for the Monument to the Fallen of Priverno (1932-33, hall 1), and those of Terracina (1919) and Borgo Hermada (1959) in hall 2; the two plaster reliefs with the Allegory of Justice, designed for Littoria Court (1936, hall 3); the version in dark wax Peace (1914-19, hall 4); studies for Fontanile sheep, (1930c.) and for the laundresses Source (1900-1910), hall 5; large cartons of windows with the Madonna Enthroned with Angels, 1918-19 along with numerous ceramics and pottery painted in Room 6.

Among the activities sponsored and hosted by the Museum Cambellotti we include conferences and book presentations, guided tours theme aimed at enhancing and promoting the museum heritage consulting thesis. and university internships in museology.