The Sighting of Saint Stephen – Monument to Nicholas Nicolajevich
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
1912
Material and technique:
Plaster covered with bronze
Inventory:
inv. C. 482
Model for the lower side of the bronze monument, designed for Manejnaja Square in St Petersburg, 1911-13, destroyed in 1917.
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.