Staglieno Cemetery (Genoa) represents an emblematic case of the relationship between arts and industry at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. According to a positivist point of view, industrial production becomes the means for a global intervention project concerning the reality from the building to furnishing. Applied arts take on a primary role and enjoy an extremely fortunate moment regarding quantity, quality and creativity of production. The dress of funerary furnishings is no exception: this is evident in the Genoese necropolis where the large number of artefacts still preserved and each of them different by type (lamp holder, crowns, vases…) and material (metal, marble, ceramic..) testifies the continuous evolution of the taste of the current time.
