Group of the Battle of Sakarya – Monument to the Turkish Republic
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
1928
Material and technique:
Plaster coated with bronze
Inventory:
inv. C. 481
Original model for the monument in bronze, Istanbul.
Masterpieces of the hall
The hall
This is the largest room in the museum. It displays large scale celebrative, funerary and allegorical works, including the base of the monument to Kemal Ataturk, which Canonica inaugurated at Izmir in 1932 and that dedicated to the Turkish Republic in Group from the battle of Sakarya.