I am publishing this article with due respect to Skye Wentworth my former book promoter of "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" and friend. Sharing this news of another important monument with respect to love and romance is just another example of how important and meaningful an immortal bronze sculpture, such as this one, can touch we mortals. Our hearts can relate with this universal feeling of heart felt gain and loss in our life relationships.
Verona was the Italian Renaissance city of the two infamous long blood feuding families in Shakespeare's play "Romeo & Juliet".
Although, this statue is constructed with stone plinth and bronze figure, daily emotions flow between tourists and monument. Again here is anoher example of mounments speaking to us. Touching our inner most emotions, feelings and intellect, sculpture speaks and teaches us.
I am republishing an editor from Rome, Italy:
A local foundry has been commissioned to make an exact replica of the bronze at a cost of 20,000 euros (£16,500).
- Statue of Juliet, created by the Veronese sculptor Nereo Constantini in 1972.
"It, Juliet sculpture, is meant to bring good fortune for those who are unlucky in love, but a tradition of rubbing the right breast of a bronze statue of Juliet has left it looking decidedly the worse for wear.
The caressing touch of tens of thousands of thwarted romantics has done such damage that this week the statue was removed from the courtyard of what is known as Juliet’s House in Verona, the city where Shakespeare set his tale of “star-cross’d lovers”.
A local foundry has been commissioned to make an exact replica of the bronze at a cost of 20,000 euros (£16,500).
The original statue will be consigned to a museum, far from the daily assault of the broken-hearted and incurably romantic.
The statue is showing signs of wear and tear, not just from being touched by so many tourists but also because of rain and the effects of the weather,” Erika Righetti, from Verona city council, told The Telegraph."
Wall of Love pictured here to the right. Romantics' signatures from all over the world.
"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" can be purchased at the following locations: Old North Church Gift Store, Bestsellers Bookstore Cafe, USS Constitution Museum Gift Sore, Museum Of Science Gift Store, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Book Stores.
Wall of Love pictured here to the right. Romantics' signatures from all over the world.
"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" can be purchased at the following locations: Old North Church Gift Store, Bestsellers Bookstore Cafe, USS Constitution Museum Gift Sore, Museum Of Science Gift Store, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Book Stores.
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