Pictures of the stone sculptured monumental tomb for the Celesia Family by sculptor D. Paernio 1899. At the top back of the monument is a sculpture of the deceased. In front is an impressive male figure with a heavy club, which is an allegory of the Work, and an adolescent angel with delicate features, which is examining some sheets while sitting, representing so the Study. Sculpted in the bourgeois Realism style this gigantic statue of the worker follows Michelangelo's heroic style,...
Pictures of the stone sculptured monumental tomb for the Celesia Family by sculptor D. Paernio 1899. At the top back of the monument is a sculpture of the deceased. In front is an impressive male figure with a heavy club, which is an allegory of the Work, and an adolescent angel with delicate features, which is examining some sheets while sitting, representing so the Study. Sculpted in the bourgeois Realism style this gigantic statue of the worker follows Michelangelo's heroic style, which was an obsession to many European and Italian sculptors between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Section A, no 51, The Staglieno Monumental Cemetery, Genoa, Italy
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