The flame extinguished
Tullo Morgagni tomb (1930) by Enzo Bifoli.
The funerary work is dedicated to Tullo Morgagni, editor-in-chief of the "Gazzetta dello Sport" since 1904. He is credited with the invention of the Giro della Lombardia (1905), the Milano-Sanremo (1907) and especially the Giro d'Italia ( 1909). He died at the age of only thirty-eight, in 1919, in a plane crash in Verona.
The marble sculptures represent the vestals: the priestesses of ancient Rome with the task of always keeping alive the sacred fire of the gods inside the temples. In this allegorical depiction they perform the opposite action: the flame of life appears from the palm of their hands, but the six women blow on it, extinguishing it and decreeing death.
Cimitero Monumentale di Milano, Milan, Italy.
The flame extinguished
Tullo Morgagni tomb (1930) by Enzo Bifoli.
The funerary work is dedicated to Tullo Morgagni, editor-in-chief of the "Gazzetta dello Sport" since 1904. He is credited with the invention of the Giro della Lombardia (1905), the Milano-Sanremo (1907) and especially the Giro d'Italia ( 1909). He died at the age of only thirty-eight, in 1919, in a plane crash in Verona.
The marble sculptures represent the vestals: the priestesses of ancient Rome with the task of always keeping alive the sacred fire of the gods inside the temples. In this allegorical depiction they perform the opposite action: the flame of life appears from the palm of their hands, but the six women blow on it, extinguishing it and decreeing death.
Cimitero Monumentale di Milano, Milan, Italy.