Detail from the "<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Colonna_del_Verziere" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonna del Verziere">Colonna del Verziere</a>" ("Column of the Greengrocery market") in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Milan" class="mw-redirect" title="Milan">Milan</a>, Italy. The column was erected in 1580 as an <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ex_voto" class="mw-redirect" title="Ex voto">ex voto</a> for the end of the 1577 plague epidemy. It was completed only in 1673, when the statue of Jesus, sculpted by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Vismara" class="mw-redirect" title="Giuseppe Vismara">Giuseppe</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gian_Battista_Vismara" class="mw-redirect" title="Gian Battista Vismara">Gian Battista Vismara</a> on a drawing by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Maria_Richini" class="mw-redirect" title="Francesco Maria Richini">Francesco Maria Richini</a>, was added. It is also a monument bearing since 1860 the names of the patriots of Milan who fell during the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cinque_giornate_di_Milano" class="mw-redirect" title="Cinque giornate di Milano">"Five days of Milan"</a> insurgency (1849). Picture by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">Giovanni Dall'Orto</a>, May 5 2007.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">G.dallorto</a>
Attribution
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>