Marble Il Disinganno Italian statue by Francesco Queirolo

The main image of Italian statue sculpture:

This group of Italian Statue describes a person who has been rid of sin, represented by the net into which the Genoa artist put all his extraordinary skills. A winged elf with a small flame on its forehead, a symbol of human wisdom, helps this man to free himself from the intricate web while pointing to the earth beneath his feet, a symbol of earthly passion. An open book lying on the earth; It is the Bible, the sacred text, and one of the three “headlights” of masonry. The bas-relief on the base of the Italian Statue, accompanied by the story of Jesus restoring sight to the blind, accompanied and strengthened the meaning of the fable.

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The important position of the Italian statue:

As Aurelia puts it, the Disillusionment of the Italian Statue is an “entirely prince’s invention, a new work of its kind” because there is nothing like it in ancient or modern art. It is no accident that the monument is rich and complex in symbols. The reference to the contrast between light and dark caused by the main allegory as well as by the bas-relief (with the phrase “Qui nonvident videant”) and the biblical passage carved in the open book, the Italian Statue seems to be an explicit reference to the Enlightenment of Freemasonry, and those who are enlightened will enter wearing a ritual blindfold, To open your eyes to the new light of the truth the cottage preserves. Raimundo’s dedication is truly beautiful: his father’s life is held up as an enduring example of human frailty, the unknowing of great virtue without sin.

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