Galleries and Arcades
Badaracco memorial sculpted by Moreno
Giacomo Moreno’s 1878 memorial to Giuseppe Badaracco.
F.G. Casella Memorial, 1884. Giuseppe Benetti, Sculptor.
The lines between living person and sculpture are blurred as we are drawn into the scene as this child, this sculpture of a child, kisses a bas relief sculpture of her grandfather.
Carpaneto Tomb, 1886
Giovanni Scanzi’s virtuoso sculpture of an angel wrestling to control a small boat in the wind
Child
A delicately carved child’s face. From the 1895 Bianchi family tomb sculpted by G. Bruno.
Castagnola Memorial, 1905
This poor man and boy grieve the death of their benefactor, who wanted to be remembered for his charity. The Fletcher tomb, created by the same sculptor, Luigi Brizzolara, was restored through our support.
Reclining Angel
A somber angel, sculpted in 1878 by Giuseppi Benetti for the Rossi tomb.
Angel with a horn
The Carlo Casella memorial was sculpted by Giovanni Scanzi in 1877
The Dellepiane crypt, 1885
This relief sculpture is the work of Lorenzo Orengo, a master of the style known as “Bourgeois Realism”.
Ferrando Tomb, 1909
A early symbolist style sculpture of angels transporting the deceased to heaven, created by the sculptor Pietro Capurro.
Two angels
Two angels in mourning, from Giuseppe Benetti’s 1875 Gatti tomb.
Gallino tomb, 1894
A relative of Carolina Gallino, depicted deep in reflection by sculptor Giacomo Moreno
Pastorini Tomb capitals
These unusual column capitals are background elements of the elaborate 1902 Pastorini tomb by Giuseppe Navone.
Piccollo Tomb, 1891
Giacomo Moreno created this marble memorial in 1891, blending classicism and naturalism in his artistic conception.
Angel Wing
This wing is from an angel sculptued by Agostino Allegro for the tomb of Giuseppe Quierolo, circa. 1872.
There are 290 sculptural memorials in chapels in the open arches of the Arcades, and 468 in the large internal Gallery Niches. In addition there are several thousand relief sculptures and columbarium niches adorned with individual marble carvings.
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