Cimitero Monumentale II

Over the years, I’ve taken a lot of photographs of funerary sculpture, and the Cimitero Monumentale boasts some very interesting and beautiful pieces of neoclassical, art nouveau, and modern statuary and relief. Aside from the obvious set pieces and portrait busts, there are statues that clearly are real portraits of the deceased, not sculpture chosen off the shelf.

Has the woman in the fourth photograph been depicted wearing her favorite dress, I wonder? And are the three children standing in front of the organ pipes the grandchildren of the man buried in that grave, placed there to sing to nonno (grandpa) and keep him company for eternity?Read more