Room VI
From early youth Pietro Canonica took an interest in holy themes. In this room thirty works are displayed which make up the religious collection. The statues of Saint Peter and Saint Paul of Tarsus, commissioned by the Lateran University, come from the period between 1936 and 1940, as does the Monument to Saint John of the Wood, while the fourteen bass reliefs in bronze showing the Way of the Cross date to 1958 and were donated to the city of Agrigento for the shrine to the fallen and then replicated in the Abbey of Casamari.
Inside the room there are, additionally, representations of the Passion of Christ (Christ crucified, Christ flagellated, Christ in deposition) on which Canonica worked from 1884 to 1902.
List of works
