Girl, Dove and Rainbow — Alessio-B, Padua
Alessio-B · 2021 · Via Tiziano Vecellio, Arcella, Padua
Photo as published on Street Art Utopia; photographer not named in our records. Artwork: Alessio-B.
Padua street artist Alessio-B painted this mural in via Tiziano Vecellio, in his own district of Arcella, over the Easter weekend of 2021. A girl frees a dove with a rose in its beak; once it takes flight it leaves a rainbow trail, which PadovaOggi called a symbol of peace and hope. Source Source Source Checked
Seen Mar 2022: the newest dated report we found is a Padua street-art walk published on 28 March 2022 that lists the mural in via Tiziano Vecellio. Street Art Cities marks it as active but gives no date for that, so we found no dated source showing it is still there Source Source Reported
💡 5 things to know
- An Easter gift to his own districtPadovaOggi wrote that Alessio-B wanted to give the city a new present and chose his own district, Arcella, over the Easter weekend, again marked by the pandemic; Il Mattino di Padova called it his dove for Easter. Source Source Checked
- Dove, rose and rainbowThe girl frees a dove holding a rose in its beak; as it flies away it leaves a rainbow trail, which a Padua travel blog described as the dove seeming to paint the rainbow. Source Source Checked
- One of his pandemic worksPadovaOggi noted that in the fourteen months of the pandemic Alessio-B had dedicated several works to it, on the walls of the school in Vo’, at Padua’s hospital and in the Bergamo area. Source Reported
- A recurring themeThe same blog describes another Alessio B mural near the hospital, a girl looking at the sky and freeing a dove, as a theme that often recurs in his work. Source Reported
- Followed by a heartIl Mattino di Padova wrote on 16 April 2021 that after the Easter dove, Alessio-B’s latest work sent up a heart-shaped balloon, near the hospital. Source Reported
📍 Where it is
On a wall in via Tiziano Vecellio, in the Arcella district of Padua (PadovaOggi, Un’amica in viaggio). Street Art Cities gives the address as via Saetta 141, Padua. Source Source Source Checked
Opens the map point Street Art Cities gives for the mural. We found no dated sighting after March 2022, so it may have changed.
🗓️ Sightings
- 20214 Apr
New mural reported · PadovaOggi
- 202116 Apr
His Easter dove · Il Mattino di Padova
- 202228 Mar
On a Padua street-art walk · Un’amica in viaggio
Amber stamps mark reports. Publication dates are not camera dates.
🗞️ In the sources
Un messaggio di pace e speranza nel nuovo mural di Alessio-b
“c’è una bambina che libera una colomba la quale, mantenendo una rosa nel becco, una volta preso il volo rilascia una scia arcobaleno come simbolo di pace e di speranza”
“There is a girl who frees a dove which, holding a rose in its beak, leaves a rainbow trail once it takes flight, as a symbol of peace and hope.”
Il grande cuore di Alessio-b
“Dopo il volo della colomba per Pasqua dalle mani di una bambina felice”
“After the flight of the dove for Easter from the hands of a happy girl.”
Street art a Padova: quali sono le opere più belle e dove trovarle
“Le sue manine liberano infatti una colomba che, volando via, sembra dipingere una scia arcobaleno.”
“Her little hands free a dove that, flying away, seems to paint a rainbow trail.”
✅ The facts
- Year
- 2021, over the Easter weekend; Street Art Cities also dates it April 2021 Source Source Source Checked
- Subject
- A girl freeing a dove that holds a rose in its beak and leaves a rainbow trail Source Source Source Checked
- Technique
- Stencil and spray paint, the way the artist says he works; no source describes this wall’s technique Source Unconfirmed
- Title
- No title in the press; Street Art Cities lists it as Untitled, and a travel blog captions both this and another Alessio B mural “Off the wall”. “Girl, Dove and Rainbow” is our descriptive name Source Source Unconfirmed
- Status
- Last reported on 28 March 2022; Street Art Cities marks it active without a date Source Source Unconfirmed
- Size
- Not stated in the sources we found Unconfirmed
🔗 Related
- Rainbows Made by Hand (10 Photos) — Street Art Utopia
- Alessio-B — the artist’s website
- All Artwork Files
All sources & image credits
- PadovaOggi — Un messaggio di pace e speranza nel nuovo mural di Alessio-b — 4 April 2021
- Il Mattino di Padova — Il grande cuore di Alessio-b — 16 April 2021
- Un’amica in viaggio — Street art a Padova: quali sono le opere più belle e dove trovarle — 28 March 2022
- Street Art Cities — Untitled by Alessio-B, Padua (photos by Ilaria Perle d’arte)
- Alessio-B — official website
- Hero image: as published on Street Art Utopia; the photographer is not named in our records. A 16:9 share image was made from it with blurred sides.
Last checked: 7 November 2026 · How we verify art