After Daniel Spoerri had had the last meals of twelve famous men chiselled in marble for an exhibition in Milan, he decided to place a monument to famous women in the Giardino. Marie Antoinette, Hannah Arendt, Hildegard von Bingen, Tanja Blixen, Madame Curie, Marlene Dietrich, Isidora Duncan, Mata Hari, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, and the goddess Leda.