Lethe takes Maria Ossola, 1920, after Stagliano
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In her mid 30s, Maria's memory of life is being taken by the goddess who causes the soul to forget her life, on the way to the afterlife. Stagliano's bronze of them stands in the monumental cemetery of Turin and has done for nearly a century, where I photographed them in 2017. It's a large, dramatic work, 26 x 39 inches.