Scotti grave commemorative plaque

commemorative plaque, series - Piacenza area (19th/20th centuries)
COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE, 1823 - 1903
The three slabs containing the names of the deceased are placed side by side and are surmounted by a smooth string course containing the text of the inscription

OBJECT
commemorative plaque
MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE
STONE
MEASURES
Height: 220
Width: 200
CULTURAL FIELD
Piacenza area
STORAGE PLACE
Municipal cemetery
ADDRESS
Via Caorsana, 26, Piacenza (PC)
HISTORICAL CRITICAL NEWS
It is interesting to note how this complex of three tombstones was noted by Scarabelli (1841) who stated regarding the Douglas Scotti tomb: "an example that should be imitated by the Municipality to keep a lasting memory of the most illustrious citizens (...) because the walls of those three chapels are covered from top to bottom with large slabs of white marble, with the names of the family's dead engraved and gilded". It is indicative here that the maximum historical "memory" function of the family axis has been identified in the simplicity of these slabs. The tombstone therefore performs, in this case, a function that is entirely similar to that of the family genealogical tree.
CARD TYPE
Works/objects of art
LEGAL CONDITION
property Territorial public body
NATIONAL CATALOG CODE
0800311854
COMPETENT BODY FOR PROTECTION
Superintendence for Historical, Artistic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage for the provinces of Parma and Piacenza
FILING BODY
Superintendence for Historical, Artistic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage for the provinces of Parma and Piacenza
COMPILATION DATE
1995
DATE OF UPDATE
2006
REGISTRATIONS
top - QVI. YEAR . AETATIS SVUAE. DVXERVNT. VLTRA . XII/ follows list of deceased (see photo SBAS PR 111192/ 93/ 94) - capital letters - engraved - Latin _origwidth="200"