The Busts of the Pincio Gardens — Page 2

The Pincio busts commemorate people from different eras: poets, artists, scientists, and political figures. Browse their photographs, read their stories, and use the map to find a portrait along the garden paths.

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Angelo Celli

Celli connected malaria research with access to medicine, education, and the living conditions of rural workers around Rome.

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Angelo Secchi

Secchi studied the physical nature of stars through their spectra and helped establish astrophysics from an observatory in Rome.

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Annibale Caro

Caro’s Italian Aeneid gave Virgil a new poetic voice, while his court employment connected literature with the planning of images.

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Antonio Canova

Canova’s sculpture joined classical forms to carefully finished marble, including the Borghese portrait of Pauline Bonaparte as Venus.

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Antonio Nibby

Nibby combined ancient texts, inscriptions, and fieldwork to reconstruct the topography of Rome and its surrounding countryside.

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Archimedes

Archimedes’ surviving mathematics is more revealing than the familiar stories about baths and impossible machines.

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Armando Spadini

A painter of family life who also painted the Pincio. His work sits between close observation, Impressionist color, and older Italian painting.

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Attilio Deffenu

A Sardinian journalist and revolutionary syndicalist, Deffenu linked social reform to the island’s problems before dying on the Piave in 1918.

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