Sculpture Gallery

Staglieno is the largest outdoor sculpture museum in Europe

Sculptural Gallery

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  • Old woman

    Brichetto Tomb, D. Carli, sculptor 1888

  • Book hand

    Detail of a dusty hand holding a book

  • Woman with horse

    Scala Tomb, E. Sclavi, sculptor, 1913

  • Eyes punti

    Detail of a face with measuring points left by the carver

  • Woman with cross

    Poggi tomb, E. Giacobbe, sculptor, 1873. Woman with cross

  • Delicate carving of marble coins

    Pastorini Tomb, G. Navone, sculptor, 1902. Delicate carving of marble coins

  • carved marble angel

    Carved marble angel

  • marble sculpture of a woman mourning

    Salvatore Rebora tomb, G. Pasciuti, sculptor, 1916. A fine example of the Liberty style, the Italian Art Nouveau.

  • highly detailed memorial portrait bust

    Highly detailed memorial portrait bust

  • stunning marble eagles wing

    Stunning marble eagles wing

  • Child

    Child

  • Ornate marble flowers

    Ornate marble flowers

  • in a dark forest

    a dramatic bronze liberty style sculpture by Attilio Agrone

On May 15 2013we held a conference in Genoa, Italy to present our first restoration projects. The conference was organized by the City of Genoa and the U.S. Consular Agency in Genoa along with the American International Woman's Club in Genoa. It was very well received and widely covered in the Italian Media. May 15, 2013
In May 2013 we presented our first restoration projects at a conference in Genoa, Italy organized by the City of Genoa and the U.S. Consular Agency in Genoa along with the American International Woman's Club in Genoa.

We all understand giving to support medical care, feeding the hungry, and providing emergency disaster relief. We understand donating to local cultural activities, to enhance the quality of life in our own communities. But, why donate to restore statues in an obscure cemetery on the outskirts of a city that we might have never even considered visiting?

Our oldest records of civilization come to us through stone carving. This art has been with us throughout history. At Staglieno we have the greatest collection of late 19th and early 20th century Italian marble carvings,

 

a high point in technical skill, artistry and story telling. They are at a critical point, deteriorating before our very eyes. This is a unique opportunity to save these irreplaceable cultural treasures for future generations.

Any size donation helps this mission. If you are able to sponsor a sculpture you will be thanked and remembered with a plaque near the sculpture. Please contact us for more information.

 

 

"Our last sight was the cemetery (a burial place intended to accommodate 60,000 bodies,) and we shall continue to remember it after we shall have forgotten the palaces. It is a vast marble colonnaded corridor extending around a great unoccupied square of ground;its broad floor is marble, and on every slab is an inscription -- for every slab covers a corpse. On either side, as one walks down the middle of the passage, are monuments, tombs, and sculptured figures that are exquisitely wrought and are full of grace and beauty. They are new and snowy; every outline is perfect, every feature guiltless of mutilation, flaw, or blemish; and therefore, to us these far-reaching ranks of bewitching forms are a hundred fold more lovely than the damaged and dingy statuary they have saved from the wreck of ancient art and set up in the galleries of Paris for the worship of the world."

 ~ Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad , 1869

The photos above are from the book Staglieno- The Art of the Marble Carver, written by Walter S. Arnold and published in 2009 by Edgecliff Press. 

 

 

"It is a museum of mid-nineteenth-century bourgeois art in the full, true sense, that the campo of Genoa stands supreme. If Pere Lachaise and the Albert Memorial were obliterated, the loss would be negligible as long as this great repository survives."

 ~ Evelyn Waugh, 1960