Calcagno family monument, Staglieno Cemetery, 1904 (Genoa, Italy)
Sculptor: Adolfo Apolloni

Symbolic

personification of mourning and sorrow

pain posture

face express pain/sadness

flowers (last)

Details

flowers

expressive face

draped

Style

Importance

Location

commemoration

memory

tribute

eternal

wings

angel

ephemeral beauty of life

watches over the eternal rest of the deceased

protective figure

wings

feathers

folds

petals

thorns?

grief

crack

tears

passage of time

degradation

neoclassical

figurative (human)


oxidized bronze

dull brown

green-grey

one might believe that he is crawling to access the deceased one last time

graveyard

Staglieno

another famous sculptor

Carlo Rubatto,
neoclassical sculptor

various graves

Ferruccio Parri

Giuseppe Mazzini

Gilberto Govi

Stefano Canzio

Nino Bixio

Fabrizio De André

tourist place

brambles