Museo del Risorgimento - Ugo Bassi in the Comacchio prison

Many artworks were donated or acquired by public administrations during the formation of the Risorgimento museums. These collections became part of the memory pathways that were being created, featuring works dedicated to the portraits of the most famous figures and the most famous and significant events from a historical memory perspective. An example is the painting "Ugo Bassi in Comacchio prison", created by Florentine painter Carlo Ademollo in 1867, on display at the Civic Museo del Risorgimento in Bologna. It is here that the iconography of the arrest of Christ is revisited, in a Risorgimento style, where Ugo Bassi is aware of his condemnation.