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Luigi Galligani's Mermaids paint the park of the Four Seasons Hotel in Florence azure.
Four Seasons Hotel Firenze
The vibrant greenery of the marvelous park of the Renaissance Palazzo della Gherardesca in Florence, now the Four Seasons Hotel, becomes an open sea, a coast populated by enchanting Sirens.
Parthenope and Leucosia, two of the three famous Sirens, enchanters of sailors, who became rocks after failing to ensnare a crafty Ulysses, who resists their hypnotic songs thanks to the warnings of the sorceress Circe, attempt to seduce the park's visitors.
Luigi Galligani's Sirens are beautiful hybrids between fish and woman, but their gestures and faces, somewhere between sensual and melancholic, retain the memory of their human forms before becoming Sirens, punished by Demeter, mother of Persephone, for failing to prevent her abduction by Hades, Lord of the Underworld.
Their song seems to echo among the centuries-old trees, the two beautiful bronze Sirens, a soft call with long hair, show themselves to the public while inside the Lobby a young adolescent Mermaid dreams on her pillow, resting her tail/fan on her head, a small charming bronze that creates tenderness in the observer.
