<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Daverio" class="mw-redirect" title="Pietro Daverio">Pietro Daverio</a>: "<i>Eternity</i>". Allegorical <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Caryatid" class="mw-redirect" title="Caryatid">caryatid</a> from the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Monumento_a_Carlo_Borromeo_nel_Duomo_di_Milano" class="mw-redirect" title="Monumento a Carlo Borromeo nel Duomo di Milano">Monument to Charles Borromeo</a> in the apse of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_in_Milan" class="mw-redirect" title="Cathedral in Milan">Cathedral in Milan</a> (1611). The statue holds in her hand the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros" class="mw-redirect" title="Ouroboros">ouroboros</a> (the snake eating its own tail), a symbol of eternity. Picture by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">Giovanni Dall'Orto</a>, July 14 2007.
Picture by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">Giovanni Dall'Orto</a>,
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