SPEA supports Musei Reali Torino

We are proud to return part of our success to the territory.

The restoration work of the equestrian sculpture depicting Duke Vittorio Amedeo I has begun.

Located at the base of the Scalone d’Onore in the Royal Palace, this important work and the precious niche that frames it are the only surviving elements of the ancient seventeenth-century Scalone d’Onore, which was transformed in 1862 during the construction site directed by the set designer Domenico Ferri, commissioned by Vittorio Emanuele II to adapt the residence to the new rank of Main Royal Palace of Italy.

Originally, this equestrian monument, one of the oldest in Turin, was supposed to depict Duke Emanuele Filiberto. However, due to the premature death of the sculptor Andrea Rivalta, the various parts of the work were kept for some decades in the Palace’s storerooms, to be recovered and assembled only in 1663 when Duke Carlo Emanuele II chose to complete the work but changed its subject. Thus, the features of the illustrious ancestor Emanuele Filiberto were replaced by the face of Vittorio Amedeo I, father of Carlo Emanuele II.

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