Data sheet

Name:                       Monument for Moise de Benedetti and Irene Neppi Modona

Location:                   field 1, no. 5-6

Author:                      Antonio Minari (sculptor)

Construction date:   1900

 


 

Moise de Benedetti (1830-1908) and his wife Irene Neppi Modona (1850-1900) are buried in an Art Nouveau tomb.

It is made of white marble with bronze decorations consisting of a flame and a tree trunk supporting a book with the words “the soul of man is divine light” in Italian and Hebrew.