The Venue
The monument is a tribute to the women who actively participated in the fight against Nazi fascism. In 1954 the work was commissioned by Istituto per la Storia della Resistenza delle Tre Venezie to Leoncillo Leonardi, but in 1961 the work was destroyed in a neo-fascist attack. Augusto Murer, artist and partisan, won the competition announced by the Municipality of Venice for the creation of a new version of this sculpture dedicated to the Resistenza. The sculpture features a dead woman lying down with her hands on her face. The plinth, designed by the architect Carlo Scarpa, is a floating structure sustaining the figure on the surface of the water, in a low position in relation to the point of view of the observer.