Vittoriano
"Zanelli chooses to make the Goddess Rome in the center and on the sides two bas-reliefs conceived as two processions, one depicting the Love of the Fatherlandand and the other the Work, the Work that builds and fecundates" says Edith Gabrielli, Director of VIVE.
"It is really about the bas-relief that is here behind me. You see this sensational group of young men carrying a beam from which hangs an anvil, a reference to industrial activities. You can read very well from these figures Zanelli's training," adds the director, "from Brescia but trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence where he was nourished by a classicist culture. One can see well the knowledge of the Greek and Roman worlds, but at the same time he is perfectly up to date with the main trends of the international scene, such as the Vienna Secession".
