Venturini's Monumental

Best known as a painter, Vindizio Nodari Pesenti is also an excellent sculptor. In this work, an effective ornament of the sepulchral monument Venturini, he portrays a child who gently descends the steps leading to the tomb. She holds a bouquet of flowers in her hands; she is kind and blessed with dignity. The classical immobility of a funeral monument is therefore contradicted by its slow but eternal pace, which corresponds to the evocation of an intimate family moment and the lightness of a tender age. It should be noted that above the figure stands an arch in Botticino marble on which we read the Latin inscription "Flos in aeternitate floruit", or "The flower blooms forever".