On the second story of most buildings in the old part of Genoa, there were icons of some fashion or other. Some of them were painted on, some were on a carved bit of stone and some were full sculptures. There seemed to be several favoured saints; George and Mary being the two I most easily recognised.
I'm not exactly certain which saint is pictured above. As there is no veil and she's holding some kind of urn, I know it's not the Virgin Mary (in any of her variety of roles). My guess would be Mary Magdalene, carrying the oil she will wash the feet of Jesus with. In any case, this picture shows the feature which one of my Category Widows referred to as 'the bathtub'. You'll notice that behind the sculpture there is a lovely concaved indent fashioned to best draw your attention to the saint on show... this indent is normally either left a clean stone or painted light blue. Yup, saints in bathtubs - Italian stylin' at it's finest!
taken June 2010 - Side of a residence... don't know who's though, Genoa
