Artioli's Memorial

The figure of a sorrowful woman, in white Carrara marble, almost blends with the large slab that looks like a vertical mountain wall. The woman holds her hands to her breasts, her face is slightly inclined upward, her hair framing it with a modernist taste. The author, Carlo Cerati, who had the honor of being portrayed in a beautiful drawing by the great Vincenzo Gemito, is a very important artist who punctuates the Mantuan cemetery with many of his creations. After studying at Brera, he attended the Milanese artistic milieu, while simultaneously living an active adhesion to the anarchist faith. Returning to Mantua, he gave us a series of works often attributed to a liberty eclecticism. His genius is expressed in a strong balance between pain and figurative power, sometimes recalling the teaching of the most illustrious Italian masters.