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Bomarzo: Grove of the Monsters

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« on: March 13, 2008, 01:07:13 am »

20th Century Visitors

In 1938 the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali paid the grove a visit. Making his way through the tangle of weeds he was awestruck by the figures. He shot a short film at the park and later the figures were to inspire his 1946 painting The Temptation of Saint Anthony. Other artists soon echoed Dali's interests.

The poet Andre Pieyre de Mandiagues wrote as essay about the garden. Artist Niki de Saint Phalle was inspired by it to create her own Tarot Garden in Tuscany, Italy after she visited Bomarzo. In 1962 Argentinian writer Manuel Mujica Láinez wrote a novel entitled Bomarzo, based on the life of Orsini. He followed the novel by composing an a libretto based on the book and in 1967 Alberto Ginastera set the libretto to music and it became an opera for which Mujica Láinez and Ginastera shared a Pulitzer Prize.

It was not until the 1950's when the park was bought by Giovanni Bettini that some restoration began to take place. Located 60 miles north of Rome, it is now open to the public and attracts artists and art lovers from all over the world.

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