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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
TKe Camposanto of Genoa. 
The peculiar exuberance, ingenuity and frequent- 
ly misplaced technical skill of the modern Italian 
sculptor is but little restrained even in the mor- 
tuary monuments, and one of the largest collec- 
tions of these statues and monuments is that of the 
celebrated Camposanto of Genoa, originally 
founded as far back as 1835. The first design 
drawn by the architect of the city, Charles Bar- 
abino, contemplated only a simple cemetery, rect- 
angular in shape, surrounded by walls without ar- 
cades, and with a Cappella dei Suffragi, or Chapel of 
Intercession, Greco-Egyptian in style, in the centre. 
At . this date the practice of burial in the churches 
was still in vogue; but, two years later, this cus- 
tom being forbidden by law, the architect J. B. 
Resasco, was commissioned by the civic authorities 
to design a more important necropolis on this site. 
This Camposanto, situated partly on the plain and 
partly on the slope of the hill rising from it, con- 
sists of a large rectangle in the lower position, this 
rectangular enclosure surrounded by vaulted ar- 
cades containing a double row of monuments under 
the arches and in the corresponding niches. On 
the southeast and northwest, in addition to the ar- 
cades and contingous to them, extend .two rows of 
columbaria, also vaulted, and lit from above by large 
semi-elliptical openings with grillages of terra-cotta. 
On the northwest side of the great rectangle, and 
on higher ground, is another but smaller, sur- 
rounded on three sides by vaulted arcades sup- 
ported by marble pillars and columns, and in the 
centre, approached by a flight of sixty-six marble 
steps, twenty-two metres in width, rises the Chapel, 
also in marble, its front supported by columns. On 
each side of the entrance are statues of Hope and 
Charity, by the sculptor, J. B. Cerasco. 
In the interior, the chapel is circular in form sur- 
mounted by a semi-spherical dome and' surrounded 
by sixteen marble columns which carry a circular 
gallery with balustrades. It is furnished with four 
marble altars, eight bas-reliefs and eight statues, 
by different sculptors, of Moses, Ezekiel, Daniel, 
Saint John the Evangelist, the Archangel Saint 
Michael, the Immaculate Conception, Adam and 
Eve. Of these, the statue of the archangel is by 
the sculptor Santo Varni, among whose pupils, it 
is said, may be numbered almost all the contem- 
porary Ligurian sculptors and who is the author 
also of the heroic statue of Faith, standing in the 
centre of the great enclosure. 
In course of time the necessity of extending this 
necropolis became evident, and in 1868 was com- 
menced the work of adding a hemicycle on the 
northeast, from the plans of the architect Resasco- 
This new enclosure is surrounded by a double row 
of columbaria, vaulted. It is proposed to add in the 
future a similar semi-circular addition on the south- 
west. In these numerous galleries and arcades are 
erected a great number of tombs, monuments and 
memorial statues, of the most prominent families 
and citizens, including those of the two architects 
of the Camposanto. 
GENERAL VIEW OF THE CAMPOSANTO, GENO.\, ITALY. 
