Italian Ungulates

 Italian Ungulates

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Technique and Dimensions:

Mounted leather

Location:

Piano terra, Sala 7

Provenance:

Western Europe, 19th and 20th centuries

 

On the ground floor of the museum, Room 7 houses a large panoramic showcase dedicated to Italian Ungulates. This term defines herbivorous mammals with hooves. The Italian Ungulates are inserted here in a space that recreates the specimens’ natural habitat with an appropriate painted background: the mountain scenery hosts two robust ibexes, a group of Alpine chamois and two Abruzzo chamois. In the center, in the foreground, you can see a family group of mouflon, present in Sardinia and in the rest of the peninsula with numerous introduced populations. In a clearing there are a group of deer, two fallow deer and a pair of roe deer. At the edge of the forest, a herd of wild boars, which are increasingly seen in urban centers. A curiosity: in the collection of the Museum there is a specimen of Abruzzo chamois from Barrea, L'Aquila, where it was collected in 1892 and chosen to describe the new subspecies of Abruzzo in 1899.