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Villa Borghese, Goethe monument

Sculptor: Gustav Eberlein (1847-1926). Villa Borghese park, Rome.

Around 1900, Eberlein was one the most famous Berlinese sculptors. The Goethe monument was commissioned by the German emperor Wilhelm II, who donated it at his birthday in 1902. The Italian sculptor Valentino Casali, not Eberlein, translated the design into stone, at his studio in Berlin. On August 5, 1904, the monument was inaugurated by the Italian king Victor Emanuel III. The two figures visible here represent Orestes and Iphigenia, who stand for dramatic poetry as well as for Greece as nation of culture.