Angelo Zanelli

{{short description|Italian sculptor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} thumb|Angelo Zanelli thumb|150px|right|Statue of the Republic

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

== Biography == Angelo Zanelli was born in 1879, at San Felice del Benaco, near Brescia.

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 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.<ref name="Heller-2013">{{Cite book |last1=Heller |first1=Jules |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA279 |title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary |last2=Heller |first2=Nancy G. |date=2013-12-19 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-63882-5 |pages=279–280 |language=en |chapter=Jackson, Hazel Brill}}</ref>

==Selected works== *Sculptures of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II (1925), Rome *Monument to the Victims of World War I, Imola (1928) *"Statue of the Republic" (1929), El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba. *"El Trabajo" (1929), El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba. *"La Virtud Tutelar" (1929), El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba.

==References== {{Reflist}} *Valotti/Terraroli;'' Antonio Zanelli (1879–1942) Contributo per un calalogo''; Comunità Montana di Valle Sabbia (2007).

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