Statue of Saint Carlo in Arona, Italy
A colossal statue of Saint Carlo in Arona, Lake Maggiore, Italy. The designer was Giovan Battista Crespi, known as Cerano, the statue being made of wrought copper sheets held together by nails and iron tie-beams (assembled by sculptors Siro Zanelia from Pavia and Bernardo Falconi from Lugano). The monument was finished in 1624 and was the largest statue in the world at the time
Picture No
10502190
Media ID
46297417
Size
3407px x 5186px
(5.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed illustration
Date
circa 1910s
