Monumento al Partigiano, Bergamo

The monument by Giacomo Manzù commemorates the deaths of partisans killed by fascist forces during the World War II.

The monument consists of a tall rectangular bronze slab: on one side is a poetic inscription by the sculptor, and on the other are two human figures.

The figures depict on the left, a young woman with short hair with an oversize gown that droops revealing one shoulder, steps forward as if to touch the figure on the right, which is a young man, apparently limp and dead, tied by his feet to a trestle with his shirt falling down to his shoulder and arms drooping down.

Some sources indicate, Manzu, native to Bergamo, had been forced to resign his appointment at the Brera Academy in 1942, after displeasure with his submissions to an art exhibition in Rome that year, and moved to Clusone till the end of hostilities.

The image also recalls the pictures of the dead Mussolini, his mistress and two aides, displayed hanging upside down in Piazzale Loreto of Milan on 28 April 1945.