Monument to Faysal I King of Iraq
Author:
Pietro Canonica
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
1932-33
Material and technique:
Plaster
Size:
cm 390(h)x88(w)x295(d)
Inventory:
inv. C. 477
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.
