La Musa Clio
The city also expresses its identity through street art: large walls become
open-air canvases that speak of memory, values, traditions and visions of the future.
A contemporary journey that takes visitors on a journey through history and creativity
The mural ‘The Muse Clio’, inaugurated on 20th November 2016, is the work of artist Federico Zenobi, Corrado Caimmi and Nicola Canarecci and is placed in an apartment building in the San Giuseppe district.
The artist has here faithfully reproduced Clio, Muse of history and epic poetry, inspired by the image of the muse in the boudoir on the second floor of Palazzo Pianetti, home of the Civic Art Gallery.
The decision to represent the muse stems from the need to ‘bring the museum to the street’, thus allowing it to be enjoyed by all citizens and not just a few, as was the case in the past.
Clio wears bright orange and blue robes and around her is quoted the phrase ‘The town does not tell its past, it contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets’ from Italo Calvino’s The Invisible Cities.
Below is depicted part of a valuable Roman pavement found near the Frederick II School.
