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Laghi Luigi Monument

1816

Schede

The monument of the physician Luigi Laghi was realized by Filippo Pedrini and Domenico Ferri in 1816. Thanks to the perspective the effect produced is of a barrel vaulted space with coffered casings with in the center, in the foreground, a structure composed of a truncated pyramid surmounted by a series of basses cylinders, one of which is crowned with tragic masks. In the foreground, at the center of the base, there is a stele which is crowned by two volutes and it contains the Latin inscription. Two veiled weeping women are resting on the stele. At the top of the monument sits a female figure holding a circular medallion in her right hand , containing the left profile of the deceased. On both sides of the monument there are two lit lamps.

The painting depicts a large funeral stone surmounted by a statue of a woman who is sitting; she is holding a medallion depicting a male profile in her right hand. The cippus, with a pyramidal trunk base and a circular top part with two oil lamps on the sides, is inserted in a coffered vault painted in a central perspective. In the foreground there are two women leaning against the kiosk containing the tombstone, thre cimasa is surmounted by double-curled decorations.

Traduzione a cura degli studenti Candini, Tedesco, Caneti; nell'ambito del progetto di Alternanza scuola-lavoro 2017/18 con il Liceo Ginnasio Luigi Galvani di Bologna.