Angelo Zanelli was an Italian sculptor.

He was born at San Felice del Benaco

San Felice del Benaco

San Felice del Benaco is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, northern Italy. The name derives most likely from the Latin sinux felix, meaning "pleasant harbour"....

. In 1904 he moved to Rome, where he met Felice Carena

Felice Carena

Felice Carena was an Italian painter.Born at Cumiana, he studied in the Turin's Art Academy; here he frequented Symbolist poets such as Arturo Graf and Giovanni Cena. In 1906 he moved to Rome and in 1912 he exposed his works at the Biennale di Venezia...

. He won the contract for the realization 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 Goddess Rome.

He usually worked for public commissions, also abroad.

Selected works

• Sculptures of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II (1925), Rome
• Monument to the Victims of World War I, Imola
  Imola
  thumb|250px|The Cathedral of Imola.Imola is a town and comune in the province of Bologna, located on the Santerno river, in the Emilia-Romagna region of north-central Italy...
  
   (1928)
• "Statue of the Republic" (1929), El Capitolio
  El Capitolio
  El Capitolio, or National Capitol Building in Havana, Cuba, was the seat of government in Cuba until after the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and is now home to the Cuban Academy of Sciences. Its design and name recall the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., but it is only superficially similar...
  
  , Havana
  Havana
  Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
  
  , Cuba
  Cuba
  The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
  
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• "El Trabajo" (1929), El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba.
• "La Virtud Tutelar" (1929), El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba.