Stake attention in this memory
This image captures a white marble sculptural group affixed to the exterior corner of a multi-story building in Florence, Italy, specifically at the intersection of Piazza San Giovanni and Via de' Pecori. The sculpture, by Giovan Battista Foggini (1730), depicts three figures. A central, older male figure, identified as Saint Zenobius, stands or sits, draped in robes, with a subtle halo above his head. He attends to a smaller, mostly nude male child kneeling before him, whose posture suggests lifelessness or illness, with a dark mark visible on the child's left arm/torso. A third figure, a draped female, kneels to the right of the child, facing the central male figure. The sculptural group rests on a circular, inscribed white stone plinth, which is supported by a larger, inverted conical grey stone base. This conical base is also inscribed with text in capital letters and is secured to the building wall by a smaller, decorative, possibly zoomorphic stone bracket at its bottom. The building's facade is constructed from large, light-colored, rectangular ashlar blocks, forming a rusticated texture. To the left of the sculpture, an arched opening with grey trim reveals a recessed wall surface rendered in light orange or terracotta plaster. Similar light orange plasterwork is visible on other parts of the building's facade behind the stone blocks. Several small, dark metal fixtures, possibly hooks or mounting points, are present on the stone walls. The scene is illuminated by ambient light from an overcast, pale grey sky, which dominates the upper left portion of the frame.
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