Monumento alla Civiltà Italica
Monumento alla Civiltà Italica stands in a small public square in Verona, near Piazza delle Erbe and Galleria Pellicciai. The bronze figure shows a woman in ancient dress, raising a sword towards the sky.
Egidio Girelli created the statue to commemorate 29 civilians killed during an Austrian air raid on 14 November 1915. Verona inaugurated it five years later, while four inscriptions joined the Rosso Verona marble base in 1926. Liberty style, Italy’s form of Art Nouveau, shapes the allegory of Italian civilisation through grief, sacrifice, liberty and justice.
Restoration in 2004 helped preserve the marble, while later work cleaned the bronze, treated microcracks and added protective coatings. Black, light-green and yellowish patinas remain visible on the metal, and small cracks mark parts of the stone base.
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