Allegory of Student Padua, 1942 (fresco)

Allegory of Student Padua (Allegoria della Padova studentesca), by Giorgio Perissinotto, c. 1942, 20th Century, fresco Detail. Particular of a bohemian fresco which decorates the Romm of Students of Palazzo Bo, made by the Futurist painter and illustrator Giorgio Perissinotto, also known as Peri; protagonist of the painting is a red-coloured female figure, personification of the Day, flying in the sky of Padua, dressed with a black mantle; the city can be recognized thanks to Sant'Antonio Cathedral, before which are people wearing the academic dress; within a house painted in a cross section, a young man sitting at his desk is studying medical science, as can be argued thanks to a skeleton model, next to him Bo Palace