Bronze Vanetti Angiolo <The> 1881/1962

Superb bronze by A. Vannetti depicting a Roman soldier on his magnificent mount.

Held helmeted, armed with a shield adorned with a Medusa head and a spear.

Embracing his companion before going into battle.

Brown patina with green highlights.

Base: 51 cm x 30 cm
Height: 52 cm
Marble base thickness: 3 cm
Very good condition
Weight: 35.7 kg

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and graduated in 1900. He immediately began exhibiting his sculptures in national and international exhibitions: Milan, Brussels, Paris, Ghent. He served in the military during the First World War. He resumed his artistic activity after his return from captivity in Hungary.

During the 1920s, he worked in Asia.

In 1925, he designed the monument to President Alfredo Zayas in Havana: an 18-meter monument consisting of a 2.5-meter statue placed on a Carrara marble platform and a Botcino column, which was dismantled after the revolution. In 1931, he was named an honorary member of the Academy of Design Arts.

He was the architect of various projects in Libya during the Italian colonial period. Among them were the bronze statue of the Gazelle Fountain in Tripoli, created in 1932 and destroyed on the night of November 2-3, 2014, and two marble reliefs from the fountain dedicated to Garibaldi in the settlement village of Garibaldi (now Dafnia near Misrata, Tripolitania), created in 1939 and inaugurated in March 1940. In 1947, he was appointed Honorary Consul of the Republic of Panama.

In 1955, his statue honoring U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was unveiled in Panama City, but was destroyed in 1987 by supporters of General Manuel Noriega.

He was a close collaborator of the architect Giovanni Michelazzi and also worked in South America. In Italy, his works are featured in collections and museums (including the Gallery of Modern Art in Florence and the Museum of Michelangelo Buonarroti's Birthplace in Caprese Michelangelo) as well as in squares, gardens, and palaces (including the 1926 war memorials in Dicomano and the Parco delle Souveniri in Florence, the bronze sculpture on a stone base in Sereaine, "The Two Stags" from 1940 in the Horticultural Garden in Florence, and the three marble bas-relief medallions in the meeting room of the Casa del Mutilato in Florence).

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