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Credits: Archivio fotografico Musei di Brescia ©Alessandra Chemollo
Credits: Archivio fotografico Musei di Brescia ©Alessandra Chemollo
WINGED VICTORY
THE CONSORTIUM IS TECHNICAL SPONSOR OF VITTORIA
ALATA BRESCIA 2020
The Consortium is technical sponsor of the museum exhibition project dedicated to the Capitolium Roman
Temple, as part of the initiatives organized by the Municipality of Brescia and Brescia Museums Foundation, to
celebrate the return to Brescia of the Winged Victory, the extraordinary statue of Roman era, symbol of the city
of Brescia and icon of Brescia identity.
The statue, realised with the technique known as investment casting, must have been created in the second half
of the 1st century AD, by a professional workshop specialised in bronze art in the north of Italy, for an unknown
client, probably an important person, or for the Emperor Vespasian himself.
Discovered on 1826, after centuries of oblivion, during the excavations at the ruins of the Capitolium temple in
Brescia, together with numerous other bronzes that had been hidden in the late imperial era, in order to preserve
them from pillage, the Winged Victory can be considered the most important piece among those collected
from the Capitolium and one of the very few examples of bronze statues well preserved, the only one existing in
the north of Italy. After a long and meticulous restoration work, lasting more than two years and carried out by
the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, the Winged Victory has been officially returned to Brescia, in its new
location inside the eastern cell of the Capitolium Temple, in a setting designed by Spanish Architect Juan Navarro
Baldeweg.
The Consortium, as technical sponsor, has built the new base in Botticino Classico marble, on which the Winged
Victory is placed in the Capitolium Temple.
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