Enrico Butti

Other sculptures include Tasso in Jail (now in St Petersburg); Cain; Le smorfie; Stizze; St Jerome (1875); Il mio garzone; Santa Rosa da Lima for the Duomo of Milan (1876); I minatori del Sempione (1906); and the sculptural group of La tregua (1906).

In 2023 Butti’s fountain statue Domina located in Villa Alceo in Viggiù, Lombardy, was irreversibily destroyed, when German influencer and model Janis Danner, accompanied by his friends, dragged it down to make a video filmed by his girlfriend Jessica De Oliveira, despite the signs clearly stating to not get near nor touch the statue.

[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] "Witnessing that scene reminded me of the historical episodes of looting of ancient cities, when the barbarians devastated everything and overturned the statues of the divinities on the ground as a sign of contempt", said Bruno Golferini, the manager of the villa disconsolately, "this act of vandalism made me left the same feeling, also because I grew up in Villa Alceo and that statue has always had a great emotional value for me: it was the symbol of the house, its protector in a certain sense."

Then he added: "I had to stop that group first which immediately gave me a bad feeling: they hung from the ledges to take pictures, they drank from bottles of limoncello, then came the destruction of the statue!

He then concluded, bitterly: "17 of them were here and I know that they had lunch at Villa d’Este spending about 400 euros each, but they didn’t want to make a collection for Butti’s work.

Enrico Butti, Minatore con lanterna (Feld 85, Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf )
Monument to the Fallen in War, Viggiù
Cemetery monument to Besenzanica family with L'Aratura (Plowing figures), Milan
Monument to Verdi (1913, Piazza Buonarroti, Milan)