Donizetti Monument

It commemorates the opera composer Gaetano Donizetti, a native of Bergamo.

Atop, Donizetti sits, realistically depicted, and bound to present world, in the corner of a curved bench.

A short distance away stands the lyrical muse, Melpomene, strumming her lyre.

The statue mixes both realism and the allegory to classical mythology; also expressing the sense that the artists communicates with a superior realm.

[1][2] Donizetti's funereal monument in Bergamo, erected in 1856, also features a mournful lyrical muse.