Data sheet
Name: Goldfinger Aedicule
Location: field 6, no. 23
Author: Luigi Perrone (architect)
Giannino Castiglioni (sculptor)
Construction date: 1926-1928
Accounting professor Isidoro Goldfinger (1874-1959) was the director of L’Amministratore, a journal of administration, economics, and finance published in Milan from 1904 to 1910. He served as a board member of the Valle Strona Marble Quarries in Milan and was vice president of the aluminum factory Rusconi Fraschini. In November 1943, he sought refuge in Switzerland with his sister Giulia, and the following year, his company, Società An. Fondiaria Industria, was confiscated.
In 1928, he arranged for the exhumation of his parents’ remains—his father Giacomo (1824-1879) and his mother Ester Terracini (1841-1925)—and commissioned architect Luigi Perrone to construct a mausoleum in Musso marble, where they were reinterred. Later, his remains and those of his unmarried sisters, Ida (1878-1933), Emilia (1877-1939), and Giulia (1876-1967), were also laid to rest there. The mausoleum has a classical design with a pediment, a dome, and a dome, devoid of decorations except for the bronze portal by Giannino Castiglioni (1884-1971), which depicts a pomegranate tree—a symbol of honesty and integrity—rich with branches, leaves, and fruit in a hilly landscape.
