The Funeral Of The Anarchist Pinelli is a 1972 artwork by the Italian artist Enrico Baj (1924–2003) and is his most noted and controversial piece.
It is a large scale mixed-media twelve meter long installation which encompasses an entire wall and moves out onto the floor.
[1] The work was inspired by the death of political activist Pino Pinelli who suspiciously died after falling at Milan Police headquarters where he was being detained on the suspicion of involvement in the massacre at Piazza Fontana.
Therein the work was set to be displayed in the Great Hall of Caryatids of the palazzo, in the spring of 1972 but on the day of its opening, the Police Commissioner of Milan Luigi Calabresi was assassinated by members of Lotta Continua and the exhibition was delayed indefinitely.
[4][5] The work is also partly based on Pablo Picasso's mural Guernica.