Gravestone for Clara Dal Verme & Alberto Douglas Scotti da Fombio

tombstone - Piacenza workshop (first quarter of the 19th century)
GRAVESTONE, 1814 - 1814
Plain slab of black marble, with a fillet all around and four triangles of decoration on the extremities of the lower side

OBJECT
gravestone
MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE
antique black marble/ engraving
CULTURAL FIELD
Piacenza workshop
LOCATION
Piacenza (PC)
CRITICAL HISTORICAL NEWS
Buried here, in the chapel where the members of the Scotti family had been buried for centuries, is Clara Dal Verme, wife of Alberto Scotti da Fombio, probably that Count Alberto Douglas Scotti da Fombio mentioned by Mensi (1899, p. 397) who held the important offices both under the Napoleonic empire and under the reign of the Duchess Maria Luigia: he was the first Maire of Piacenza, of which he was also Governor
CARD TYPE
Works/objects of art
LEGAL STATUS
owned by a Catholic religious body
NATIONAL CATALOG CODE
0800111848
COMPETENT BODY FOR THE PROTECTION
Superintendency for Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage for the provinces of Parma and Piacenza
FILING ORGANIZATION
Superintendency for Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage for the provinces of Parma and Piacenza
REGISTRATIONS
IN PEACE/ CLARAE. ANTONI. FIL. FROM THE WORM. COMIT./ ANNORVM. XXXVII. TANTVM CONIVGI. RELIGIOUS SVISQ. AMATISS./ ALBERTVS. ALPHONSIS. FIL. SCOTVS. COM. FOMBII/ O. PRID. NOT. NOVEMBER MDCCCXIIII./ O. FVERAM. FELIX. YOU. SUSPENDED. NVC extension. CVNCTA/TE. SORDEN. RAPTA. ET. TERM. MIHI. MINVS ERIT - capital letters - engraved - Latin