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2. Porto di Civitavecchia, Italy

3. “Kissing in memory of a port” Ettore Marinelli (Italian, 1992)
Kissing in memory of a port (Il bacio della memoria di un porto)
was created to remember people who left the port of
Civitavecchia for war, often without returning.
It was created also to rebuild a “memory” lost on 14th May
1943, when a heavy bombardment devasted not only the
historical Port Authority Office, but also a large part of the port
area and the city centre, erasing centuries of history

5. Kissing in memory of a port (Il bacio della memoria di un porto)
The statue “Kissing in memory of a port” depicts a young women
kissing a sailor of the "Royal Port Authority". It is in bronze and it is
almost three meters high. The girl wears summer clothes from the
1940s while the sailor wears the old uniform of the Royal Port
Authority

6. Kissing in memory of a port (Il bacio della memoria di un
porto)
Located near Fort Michelangelo in the Port of Civitavecchia, the
statue was inaugurated on 16th September 2020 during the
150 years anniversary celebration of the Italian Port Authority

8. Ignazio Jacometti (Italian, 1819-1883) Kiss of Judas - Saint John Lateran (the Lateran Basilica) Rome

9. Ignazio
Jacometti
(Italian, 1819-
1883)
Kiss of Judas
Saint John
Lateran
(the Lateran
Basilica) Rome

10. Josep Maria Subirachs
(Spanish, 1927-2014)
Judas kissing Jesus
Sagrada familia, Barcelona

11. Josep Maria Subirachs
(Spanish, 1927-2014)
Judas kissing Jesus
Sagrada familia, Barcelona

12. Giuseppe Bessi
(Italian, 1857-1922)
El beso de la gloria
Museo Municipal de
Bellas Artes de
Valparaíso

13. Giuseppe Bessi
(Italian, 1857-
1922)
El beso de la
gloria
Museo
Municipal de
Bellas Artes de
Valparaíso

14. Leonardo Bistolfi (Italian, 1859 - 1933)
Model for the gravestone of Capitano D. Paolella, for Turin Cemetery
Casale Monferrato- La loggia
The
marriage
of
death
Model for a memorial to
Professor Ugo Rabbeno

15. Leonardo Bistolfi (Italian, 1859 – 1933)
La Natura e il Poeta parte del monumento a
Giosuè Carducci (1908-1928), Bologna

16. Palacio
de
Bellas
Artes
Mexico
City

17. Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City

18. Leonardo
Bistolfi
(Italian, 1859
- 1933)
The allegorical
pediment for
Palacio de
Bellas Artes
Mexico City, a
central female
figure
representing
Harmony,
surrounded by
the states of
the musical
soul: pain,
anger, joy,
peace and love

20. Leonardo Bistolfi
(Italian, 1859 - 1933)
The allegorical pediment for
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City

22. Leonardo Bistolfi (Italian, 1859 – 1933) Gli Amanti, Gipsoteca di Casale Monferrato

23. Leonardo Bistolfi
(Italian, 1859 – 1933)
Gli Amanti,
Gipsoteca di Casale
Monferrato
(fragment)
In the run-up to Valentine’s
Day on 14 February, Swiss
Post is issuing a “Kiss” stamp
on 1 February 2022

24. For the Monument
of Vittorio
Emanuele II in
Rome (Altare della
Patria) Leonardo
Bistolfi
produced the
marble group
Il sacrificio
(‘Sacrifice’)

25. Leonardo Bistolfi
(Italian, 1859 – 1933)
Il sacrificio
(‘Sacrifice’)

26. Leonardo
Bistolfi
(Italian,
1859
–
1933)
Il
sacrificio

28. Rodin represented
the passion of
Paolo and
Francesca as a
relief sculpture for
bronze doors
Auguste Rodin
(1840–1917)
The Kiss
Tate gallery
London

29. Auguste Rodin
(1840–1917)
The Kiss
Musée Rodin
Paris

30. Saint
Petersburg
-
Kisses
by
Antonina
Fathullina

31. The Heritage Trail in Leavesden Country Park,
Abbots Langley
Stephen Broadbent (British, 1961)
The kiss of the screen Gods

32. Stephen
Broadbent
(British,
1961)
The Water of
Life
1994
interior
garden court
of Chester
Cathedral

34. Constantin Brâncuși
(Romanian, 1876-1957)
The kiss
Craiova Museum of Art, Romania

35. The Kiss”
adorns the tomb
of Tatiana
Rachewskaia in
Montparnasse
cemetery in
Paris. The French
State listed the
entire tomb as a
historical
monument in
2010 in order to
prevent the
young woman’s
descendants from
removing and
selling the statue

36. Tatiana Rachewskaia,
a 23-year-old
Russian woman
studying medicine in
Paris, took her own
life on 5 December
1910. Her parents
purchased a
concession in
perpetuity in
Montparnasse
cemetery and, to
adorn the grave, a
sculpture of an
embracing couple
created by Constantin
Brâncuși, a young
Romanian sculptor
who was then totally
unknown

38. Approached by art
dealers, the
descendants of the
deceased asserted
their rights to the
concession in
perpetuity in 2005
and took steps to
remove and export
the sculpture. The
State opposed this
by granting “The
Kiss” national
treasure status and
then registering the
entire tomb as a
historical monument

39. The end of
several years of
legal battles
In a decision
rendered on July
2, 2021, the
Council of State
decided that the
statue "The Kiss"
made by
Brâncuși and
implanted on
the tomb of
Tatiana
Rachewskaia in
the
Montparnasse
cemetery in
Paris would not
move

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Sound: Badarzewska - Maiden's Prayer
2022