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Crespi Family Mausoleum

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    May 6, 2022

    For the design of this monumental and, in some respects, scenographic cemetery, Commendator Crespi announced a public competition, in June 1896, through the Brera Academy of Milan.

    The commission, chaired by Carlo Ceppi of Turin, examined twenty-seven projects from which it chose the one created by the architect Gaetano Moretti, who graduated as Professor of Architectural Drawing at Brera in 1883.

    Work began in the summer of 1905, in a place surrounded by greenery not far from the confluence of the Adda and Brembo rivers and reachable via a long avenue planted with cypress trees, which is nothing other than the continuation of the main artery of the village.

    The visual impact of the cemetery as a whole is impressive, with the front occupied by the gigantic mausoleum of the Crespi family, developed above a three-story staircase, in a mixed style, which blends elements from different historical eras (especially oriental and classical).

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      May 6, 2022

      From the lower area of the mausoleum, first order, an imposing staircase leads to the second order, preceded by a rich bronze door which gives access to the chapel for religious functions and to the stairs descending to the crypt.

      This part of the building is crowned with motifs of altars and festoons.

      The third order is adorned with three statues that personify the three theological virtues (faith, hope and charity) and the culmination of the burial ground offers a dice on which, for each of the sides, the symbol of Christian redemption has been carved: the cross.

      Around the mausoleum there are various "holy fields", which were originally bordered by very well-kept myrtle hedges, which gave an almost Italian-style garden appearance.

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        May 6, 2022

        In the central strip of the tombs, numerous children were buried, who died of epidemics of Spanish fever (1919) and gastroenteritis (1928-1932).

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          Location: Capriate San Gervasio, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

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