Mario Rutelli was an Italian sculptor. Studying at the Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo and then in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 under Giulio Monteverde

Giulio Monteverde

Giulio Monteverde was an Italian naturalist sculptor and teacher.-Biography:Monteverde was born in Bistagno, Italy and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He later became a professor there...

, his masterwork is the "fontana delle Naiadi" in piazza dell'Esedra in Rome, which Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

 called "exaltation of eternal youth, the capital's first salute to art".

Many other of his works have disappeared in Italy and abroad, such as

• the monument to Anita Garibaldi
  Anita Garibaldi
  Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro di Garibaldi, best known as Anita Garibaldi, was the Brazilian wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi...
  
   on the Janiculum
  Janiculum
  The Janiculum is a hill in western Rome, Italy. Although the second-tallest hill in the contemporary city of Rome, the Janiculum does not figure among the proverbial Seven Hills of Rome, being west of the Tiber and outside the boundaries of the ancient city.-Sights:The Janiculum is one of the...
  
   (a late work, but one as daring as his earlier works, such as "Gli Irosi"),
• one of the Victories on the Vittoriano in Rome
• the bronze Quadriga on the teatro Politeama at Palermo, with Apollo (the god of music) and Euterpe (the muse of lyric poetry) above it (in this work, the riders on the sides is a portrait of Rutelli's master Benedetto Civiletti)
• the lion at the base of the Garibaldi monument in the Garibaldi garden in Palermo
• the lion with a personification of lyric poetry above at the left of Palermo's Teatro Massimo (the lion at the right with Tragedy above it is by Rutelli's master Benedetto Civiletti)
• the "Lyric" and "Apotheosis of Vittorio Emanuele" at the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele
• the equestrian monument to Umberto I in Catania
  Catania
  Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...
  
  ,
• the Fountain and commemorative monument at Agrigento
  Agrigento
  Agrigento , is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragas , one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden...
  
  
• the Monument to Nicola Spedalieri
  Nicola Spedalieri
  Nicola Spedalieri was an Italian priest, theologian, and philosopher.-Life:...
  
   in piazza Sforza Cesarini (near the Chiesa Nuova) in Rome.

Among his surviving works are the statue of Goethe at Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, the colossal 22-metre high Victoria Monument in England, the war memorial in Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth is a historic market town, administrative centre and holiday resort within Ceredigion, Wales. Often colloquially known as Aber, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol....

 (one of whose figures having what Welsh historian Gwyn Williams described as "the finest backside in Cardiganshire", in his "The Land Remembers", Futura, London 1977), busts of Domenico Morelli

Domenico Morelli

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 and Giuseppe Maielli, and a bust of Edmondo De Amicis

Edmondo De Amicis

Edmondo De Amicis was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer. His best-known book is the children's novel Heart.-Early career:...

sited in Palermo's English Garden.

Source

• This page is a translation of its Italian equivalent.