Morolo
—  Comune  —
Comune di Morolo
Morolo Location of Morolo in Italy
Coordinates: 41°38′N 13°12′E / 41.633°N 13.2°E / 41.633; 13.2Coordinates: 41°38′N 13°12′E / 41.633°N 13.2°E / 41.633; 13.2
Country	Italy
Region	Lazio
Province	Province of Frosinone (FR)
Area
• Total	26.5 km2 (10.2 sq mi)
Elevation	397 m (1,302 ft)
Population (Dec. 2004)
• Total	3,145
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Demonym	Morolani
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	03017
Dialing code	0775
Patron saint	San Michele Arcangelo
Website	Official website

Morolo is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 70 km southeast of Rome and about 12 km west of Frosinone. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,145 and an area of 26.5 km².^[1]

Morolo borders the following municipalities: Ferentino, Gorga, Sgurgola, Supino.

Famous citizens and residents[link]

Ernesto Biondi

Demographic evolution[link]

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Sister city[link]

• Hosszúhetény, Hungary

References[link]

1. ^ All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.

External links[link]

• www.comune.morolo.fr.it/

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Ernesto Biondi (January 30, 1855 – 1917) was an Italian sculptor who won the grand prix at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1905 he sued the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art for breach of contract after they refused to display his Saturnalia. The New York Supreme Court ruled against him, stating that the museum director did not have the authority to initiate contracts without a vote from the board of trustees. Biondi preferred to work with bronze and often explored themes from ancient Rome or the Middle East.

Biography[link]

Biondi was born January 30, 1855 in Morolo, near Frosinone Italy. He studied at Rome's Accademia di San Luca under Girolamo Masini.^{[citation needed]} He first came to wide recognition in 1883, when one of his sculptures was exhibited at a national exposition in Rome.^[1] At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair thirteen of his works were displayed.^[2] He won the grand prix at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris for a sculpture that "commemorate[d] the triumph of health over disease" in Cisterna, Italy.^[3] Biondi also won a competition to design a work for the Republic of Chile to honor two people important in its battle for independence from Spain. Helen Zimmern, in her book The Italy of the Italians, describes the work as depicting "two statesmen are raised on high upon a quadrangular base of bronze, one sitting, and one standing. ... The life work and merits of the two legislators is expressed allegorically around a magnificent base rich in symbolic figures".^[4]

[edit] Saturnalia

A copy (1909) from the original, at the Buenos Aires Botanical Gardens

At the 1900 Paris exposition, Biondi also displayed his Saturnalia, which depicted 10 life-size figures. Each figure represented a different social class in Rome, from the gladiators and slaves to the patricians. All of the figures had an air of decadence.^[2] Many critics did not like the work. Lorado Taft, the preeminent American sculpture critic of his day, said the sculpture "epitomized cruelly. but not unjustly, the trend of contemporary sculpture in Italy, with all its misplaced effort and its incredible, if not to say fiendish, dexterity."^[5] However, Zimmern commented that "objections may be raised to it on the score of technique, but its cleverness is indisputable. ... The central idea inculcates that in the midst of revelry the great summons may come."^[4]

In 1905 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City agreed to display the work for one year. It was shipped to the United States to be exhibited at the Pan-American exhibition at Buffalo and was set up at the exhibition grounds "Venice in America" in hopes for a sale. After the work did not sell, the director of the Met, General Cesnola, arranged for the work to be set up within the sculpture hall at the museum.^[6] At a private viewing before the exhibition opened,^[7] museum trustees were appalled by the "immorality" of the work.^[8] and ordered it removed from display. Biondi sued the museum for $200,000 for breach of contract and for damages for the harm their actions caused his reputation.^[7] The New York Supreme Court ruled in favor of the museum, stating that the museum director did not have the authority to enter into a binding contract without the vote of the board of trustees, and that the document Biondi thought to be a contract was actually a receipt for his work.^[9]

Later life[link]

Biondi died in Rome in 1917.

Style[link]

Biondi preferred to work with bronze instead of marble and at one point located his studio near the Nelli Bronze Foundry in Rome so that he could more "easily superintend the process of casting".^[10] Many of his sculptures featured Middle Eastern and Asian themes, such as caravans. Other works depicted scenes from ancient Rome.^[2]

Selected works[link]

• Fountain of the Puttos, Montelanico, Italy
• Saturnalia 1899
• The Fountain Biondi, Cisterna, Italy
• Monument to the Italian Risorgimento's Heroes, Piazza della Libertà , Frosinone, Italy 1910

Footnotes[link]

References[link]

• Howard, E., ed. (1906), The Museums Journal: The Organ of the Museums Association, V., July 1905 to June 1906, London: Dulau and Co 
• Sallares, Robert (2002), Malaria and Rome: A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-924850-8 
• Taft, Lorado, Modern Tendencies in Sculpture: The Scammon Lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1917, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois 1928
• Willard, Ashton Rollins (1900), History of Modern Italian Art, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co 
• Zimmern, Helen (1906), The Italy of the Italians, C. Scribner's sons 

External links[link]

• Jardin Botanico de Buenos Aires - Guía de Buenos Aires - Buenos Aires Guide at www.ompersonal.com.ar