You’ve seen this beautiful sculpture all over X, again and again.
The graceful, ethereal woman reaching upward like she’s slipping away.
But what most people don’t realize is that it’s actually a funeral monument.
Anelito Fuggente (Fleeing Soul) was created by Ruperto Banterle in 1915 as a tribute to his friend’s late mother. The male figure represents Life desperately trying to hold onto the soul as it flees.
At the time, it was considered almost too sensual for a cemetery.
Today, it remains one of the most emotional and poetic graves in Verona’s Monumental Cemetery.