Pietà

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“Pietà” (Piety) by Francesco Vezzoli, 2021
Piazza della Signoria
Florence, December 2021

“After his exhibition in the city in 2014, Francesco Vezzoli returns to Florence to take on its most symbolic places: Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio, in the wake of a project that has seen famous international artists as protagonists in recent years. Piazza della Signoria hosts the work ‘Pietà’ (2021), a monumental twentieth-century rampant lion installed on an ancient base crushes the head of a Roman from the second century AD between its jaws in a pastiche between different artistic eras which has become the hallmark of many recent works by the artist.” (Francesco Vezzoli in Florence, Mousse Magazine)