Valente Celle Tomb, 1893, The Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa - Italy

Sculptor: Giulio Monteverde (Bistagno, Alessandria, 1837 - Roma 1917)

The funeral monument called “Eternal Drama” represents a real Dans macabre, the futile attempt of life to escape the inevitable embrace of death. The sculptor Giulio Monteverde underlines, in this sculpture, the contrast between the sensuality of the beautiful young woman who personifies Life (caught in the moment in which , wearied by the vain struggle, she is about to surrender herself to the terrible spectre who has chosen her as his prey) and the rigid impassiveness of Death which seizes her. http://grabschonheiten.diary.ru/p81440998.htm?oam

ianbrooks:

Stress by Yoan Capote

“Stress” depicts the constant metaphorical weight we feel in our daily lives, in this case under very real weight of 17 tons of concrete, compacting the molds of several people’s actual toofs. It looks like this sculpture may need a mouth guard.

(via: meh.ro)

pandamandium:

God’s Cosmic_John Powers