Angelo Zanelli (1879–1942) was an Italian sculptor.

Biography

Angelo Zanelli was born in 1879, at San Felice del Benaco, near

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. In 1904 he moved to Rome, where he met Felice Carena. He won the contract for the realisation of sculptures in the large

Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II The Victor Emmanuel II National Monument (), also known as the Vittoriano or for synecdoche Altare della Patria ("Altar of the Fatherland"), is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Emmanuel II, the first kin ...

in the same city, to which he worked until 1925. They include the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the statue of the Goddess Rome. He usually worked for public commissions, also abroad. Zanelli's students included Hazel Brill Jackson.

Selected works

*Sculptures of the

(1925), Rome *Monument to the Victims of World War I,

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(1928) *"Statue of the Republic" (1929), El Capitolio,

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References

*Valotti/Terraroli;'' Antonio Zanelli (1879–1942) Contributo per un calalogo''; Comunità Montana di Valle Sabbia (2007). 1879 births 1942 deaths Artists from the Province of Brescia 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male sculptors {{Italy-sculptor-stub