Santa croce florence
- Where is leonardo da vinci buried in florence
- A more than 3 meters tall stele, with a crying figure on Alfieri's chest and two winged geniuses on the sides.
- Vittorio Alfieri died on October 8, 1803, failing to have a priest at his side at the time of death.
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The Countess of Albany and the monument for Vittorio Alfieri
By Samuele Magri – Art Historian and Tourist Guide in Florence
samuele.firenze@libero.it Phone: 340 5278209
Luisa, the Princess of Stolberg, a Belgian noblewoman of German ancestry, born in 1752, had come to Italy to marry Charles Edward Stuart in 1772, a catholic suitor at the throne of England who was exiled in Italy. After their marriage, they were awarded the title of Counts of Albany, the Pope not wanting to recognize the claim of Stuart to the throne of England; this was the reason why the couple moved from Rome to Florence, in a building known since then as the “Palace of the Pretender” in via Micheli, today the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence. This was the city where love blossomed between Luisa and Vittorio Alfieri. Married life was very hard for her because of the big age difference between the two of them and her husband’s alcoholism. Luisa fled to a convent in Florence and then to Rome, where she was approached by Alfieri with great scandal. Later on she lived in France with
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Antonio Canova
Artist: Antonio Canova (Possagno 1757 - Venice 1822)
Title: Monumental tomb of Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803)
Date:1804-1810
Material and tecnique:marble
Dimensions: 440 x 240 cm
Position: Basilica of Santa Croce, south aisle, between the third and fourth baysWhen poet and playwright Vittorio Alfieri died in 1803, Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, the Countess of Albany and his last flame, commissioned the celebrated sculptor Antonio Canova to produce a monumental tomb for the sum of 10,000 scudi. The following year the sculptor made a design and a plaster model of a bas-relief showing Italy weeping before a bust of Alfieri and a figure, possibly the Genius of Tragedy, but on the advice of the painter François Xavier Fabre, the Countess expressed a desire for a monument with a greater visual impact including at least one statue in the round. After devouring the poet's works and labouring long and hard, Canova met her request by devising a monumental tomb which he himself describes as being: "as solemn and majestic as I could make it, so that
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