Other Monuments in Italy

 

The prehistoric stelae-statues in Italy can be found also in other parts of northern Italy, along the Alps. They can be divided into four main groups:

 

Group of AOSTA-SION
(Val d'Aosta e Vallese of Switzerland)

Group of VALCAMONICA - VALTELLINA
(NE of Lombardia)

Group of LESSINIA
(western Veneto)

Group ATESTINO - BRENTONICO
(Trentino Alto Adige)


The stelae-statues of the Alps are quite different from those of Lunigiana. In the monuments of Tuscany the anthropomorphic traits are stylized but always well depicted and evident while the weapons are few and not well drawn.
On the contrary the statues of the Alps were realized using the opposite representing strategy: the trait of the face and the arms are absent or realized with extreme simplicity while weapons, jewels, belts and dresses are numerous and they are depicted with great realism and richness of details.
On the other hand the group of Lessinia is composed by two small cylindrical idols only, with rounded faces and without any other detail.


Two Monuments of the Atestino Group

We show here the two most important among the nine stelae-statues found in 1989 and 1990 at Arco, near Riva del Garda, in the southern Trentino. They can be dated about at the third millennium b.C. as the monuments of Lunigiana belonging to group A.
(Click the images to get the monument pages.)

 

ARCO I
ARCO IV

The images come from the book LE STATUE STELE DI ARCO,
by A.Pedrotti, Trento 1995.
Photographs by Elena Munerati

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