In 1901, Cagliari was a city in great development and crossed by strong social tensions. Gifted a noticeable sensitivity and undoubted musical culture, it was deeply affected by the disappearance of the great composer Giuseppe Verdi. So, the idea of financing a work that celebrated its figure and art took shape among some citizens.
About 120 centimetres high, the sculpture forged by the Cagliari’s sculptor Pippo Boero portrays the Master half-length, austere and pensive in the face, framed by the unmistakable beard and a hat with wide brim.
Placed on a high and sober Serrenti’s stone pillar, simply bearing the inscriptions "Verdi" and "1901", the figure is adorned with a lyre and with oak and laurel branches, symbolizing respectively the art of music and the extraordinary skill by the author of unrivalled compositions such as Aida and Nabucco.
Busto di Giuseppe Verdi
Piazza Matteotti
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