Gemito. Le sculpteur de l'âme napolitaine. Europe The tour ends with previously

The tour ends with previously unseen works created by the artist to celebrate this exhibition-event placed under the high patronage of the President of the Republic

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achieved thanks to a trained army of European officers "surviving the glories of the Napoleonic adventure

who exercised coercive lordships with little regard for public order

there will also be views of the first lapidary museums

Gemito. Le sculpteur de l'âme napolitaine. Europe The tour ends with previouslyThe story of Vincenzo Gemito (1852 1929) is that of a foundling, raised in the streets of Naples, who would become one of the greatest sculptors of his time, celebrated in his hometown and later in the rest of Italy and Europe. At the age of twenty five, settled in Paris, he caused a sensation at the Salon and then the following year at the Universal Exhibition of 1878. Alternately decried and adored by critics, he introduced realism into Italian