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