Elisabetta Longari

During a documentary research aimed at reconstructing the history of Palazzo di Giustizia in Milan – the work of architect Marcello Piacentini – and its furnishings, the authors retrieved several unpublished sources, through which they were able to trace back the phases of planning and building, as well as to finally clarify the facts surrounding the large statue representing Justice, commissioned to Attilio Selva for the Courtyard of Honour. Thanks to a comparison of documents, photographs and accounts from the sculptor’s archive in Rome, it was possible to trace in detail the tormented story of this artwork, from its commission to its realization.