MUSEO ALBINO MANCA

This museum is dedicated to Albino Manca, who was born in the city in 1898. After completing his artistic training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 1926, he took advantage of the patronage of the Counts Leopardi before attending high society. He is responsible for many portraits of personalities (the Duchess of Puglia, Mussolini...) and remarkable bronzes. A genius sculptor, he created four colossal bronze statues for the Legion of Carabinieri in Cagliari. He emigrated to New York in 1938 and settled in Greenwich Village. Some of the works created across the Atlantic include the East Coast War Memorial; the giant bronze eagle at Battery Park on Manhattan Island; and the bronze portal at New York's Children's Quenne Zoo, The Gate of Life, which evokes the land, sea and air. Albino Manca died in New York in 1976. His remains, repatriated according to his wishes to his native land, lie in Tertenia. The main part of the collection presented consists of bronzes, marbles, terracotta, medals, silver and waxes donated by the artist.