TheMonument to Donizetti is located in a public garden in Piazza Cavour, adjacent to theTeatro Donizetti inBergamo. It commemorates the opera composerGaetano Donizetti, a native of Bergamo. It was inaugurated in 1897 to mark the centenary of the composer's birth.
The monument was designed byFrancesco Jerace as a result of a competition. The statuary group is atop a plain plinth engraved only with the composers name. The monument is surrounded by a Basin. Atop, Donizetti sits, realistically depicted, and bound to present world, in the corner of a curved bench. A short distance away stands the lyrical muse,Melpomene, strumming her lyre. The artist, with eyes closed, listens to his inspiration. The statue mixes both realism and the allegory to classical mythology; also expressing the sense that the artists communicates with a superior realm.[1][2] Donizetti's funereal monument in Bergamo, erected in 1856, also features a mournful lyrical muse.
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