The Art of Edoardo Alfieri

As generously donated by the Alfieri-Maisano Archive, Genoa

Celebrating the special connection between Columbus and Genoa, Italy

Now Open!

Alfieri touching his sculpture of Christopher Columbus

Alfieri inspecting his 1956 gypsum sculpture entitled Pegasus.

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Alfieri’s 1948 plaster high relief sculpture titled Tile of the Apocalypse

Edoardo Alfieri (1913-1998) remains one of Italy's most renowned modern sculptors with architectural-scale works carved in marble and cast in bronze installed throughout Italy. Alfieri is best known in Columbus as the creator of the 1955 Christopher Columbus statue that stood at Columbus City Hall. This statue was presented as a gift from Genoa to Columbus, Ohio. The original idea of the statue as a gift from Genoa had evolved from conversations in the mid-1950s between Columbus Mayor Maynard E. Sensenbrenner and Genoa Mayor Vittorio Pertrusio. This gift marks the beginning of the Sister City relationship between Columbus and Genoa, Columbus’s very first Sister City!

The Art of Edoardo Alfieri features fifty-nine pieces by Edoardo Alfieri including nineteen original sculptures and reliefs, one of which is the original plaster maquette for the Christopher Columbus statue, and forty original drawings. This artwork represents a wide range of artistic styles and subject matter.

The art in this exhibit was given to CHS by Silvana and Stefania Maisano, sculptors and former students of Edoardo Alfieri, who were in charge of his collection after his death in 1998. The Maisano twins hope that Alfieri's legacy will continue to be recognized and revered. The Sister City Commissions brought the mayors of Columbus and Genoa together to arrange for the acceptance of this latest gift as a natural follow-up to the 1955 gift of the bronze statue which had established the now historical bond between the two cities.

Sculptors, former students of Edoardo Alfieri, and CHS donors Silvana and Stefania Maisano posing in front of Alfieri's artwork.

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