Monument to Anna Maria Porro Serbelloni

This plaster cast is a direct copy from the marble original relief found on the side of a cenotaph for Countess Anna Maria Porro Lambertenghi. The cenotaph, housed at the Villa Reale, is a monument commissioned to Thorvaldsen in 1817 by the deceased’s husband, Luigi Porro Lambertenghi.
On the main face of the monument, a representation of the deceased is carved in bas relief comforting her husband who is in the act of raising his arm to heaven. Flanked to his right with his son kissing the mother’s funeral urn.