Casa Museo Académie Vitti
Coordinates: 41 ° 38 ′ 22.9 " N , 13 ° 46 ′ 8.6" E
The Casa Museo Académie Vitti is an art museum on Via Sode No. 180 in Atina Inferiore, Ponte Melfa in the Lazio region , Frosinone province in central Italy . The theme is the Académie Vitti in Paris , as well as the life of the three Caira sisters who worked as models in Paris, founded and directed the academy.
history
Maria Caira (* 1872 in Gallinaro ; † 1949) and her two sisters, Anna (* 1879 in Gallinaro; † 1916) and Giacinta (* 1882 in Gallinaro; † 1947) were the daughters of Silvio and Domenica Caira. They worked as models for various photographers, painters and sculptors in Paris . 1889 was, for example, Maria Caira for Diana by Frederick William MacMonnies model. MacMonnies received an Honorable Mention for the life-size sculpture in the Paris Salon in 1889 . MacMonnies later taught sculpture at the Académie Vitti.
In 1894 Maria and her husband Cesare Vitti (* Casalvieri ), whom she had married in the meantime, founded the Académie Vitti . Maria herself was a model in the academy, as were her two sisters Anna and Giacinta. Cesare Vitti and the sisters were so appalled by the outbreak of World War I that they closed the academy in 1914 and moved to Italy, except for Anna, who was now living with her husband Henry Antoine Meilheurat des Pruraux.
Cesare, Maria and Giacinta moved into the house that is now the museum and lived there until they died. Most recently Maria, who died in 1949.
The direct descendant and heir Cesare Erario decided to turn the house into a museum, because he also owned the future holdings, which had been guarded and kept by the family for years. He had the house rebuilt and redesigned by the architects Francesco Melaragni and Marina Campagna.
The museum
The Casa Museo Académie Vitti museum was opened on August 17th 2013 in the presence of the museum director Cesare Erario, the member of the European Parliament Francesco De Angelis , the commissioner of the province of Frosinone Giuseppe Patrizi, the mayor of Atina Silvio Mancini, the regional consiglieres of Lazio Mauro Buschini and Marino Fardelli opened.
On the ground floor, among other things, photos that were taken in the academy and drawings by the students and teachers of the Académie Vitti are shown, but also postcards and photos from the time before, when the three sisters were with various photographers such as Nadar or Charles Naudet, painters and Sculptors stood as models. Lectures will also be given.
On the first floor there is the secretariat, an exhibition hall and a hall for meetings and seminars.
See also
Web links
- Photos from the museum holdings (and text in Italian)
- Photos from the Casa Museo Académie Vitti
- Photos from the Casa Museo Académie Vitti
- Photos from the Casa Museo Académie Vitti
- Photo slideshow on Youtube ( Luc-Olivier Merson between schoolgirls at minute 2: 51–2: 58 and 3: 12–3: 19)
Individual evidence
- ↑ MacMonnies in the exhibition catalog from 1889 (digitized online)
- ↑ Awards from the Paris Salon of 1889 with MacMonnies under Section De Sculpture in an article on the Salon of 1889 (digitized online)
- ↑ Text on the museum and the academy (Italian)
- ↑ Text on the museum and the academy (Italian)
- ^ Architects ( Memento of February 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Francesco Melaragni and Marina Campagna
- ↑ Short report ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) about the opening (Italian)