Raffaello Romanelli was an Italian sculptor, born in Florence

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

, Italy. His work includes many public monuments in honour of eminent Italians and others.

He studied with his father Pasquale Romanelli (1812 - 1887), who in turn had studied with the sculptor Bartolini

Bartolini

-People:*Gioseffo Maria Bartolini , Italian painter*Lorenzo Bartolini , Italian sculptor*Luigi Bartolini , Italian writer*Enzo Bartolini , Italian rower*Elio Bartolini , Italian writer...

. He continued his studies at the Florence Academy

Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze

The Accademia di Belle Arti is an art academy in Florence, Italy and it is now the operative branch of the still existing Accademia delle Arti del Disegno that was the first academy of drawing in Europe.-History:The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno The Accademia di Belle Arti ("Academy of Fine...

 with Augusto Rivalta

Augusto Rivalta

Augusto Rivalta One of the “outstanding Italian sculptors of the late 19th century,’’ Rivalta was born in Alexandria, Egypt to Italian parents. He studied with Aristodemo Costoli and Giovanni Duprè in Florence and in Genoa before settling in Florence...

  and Emilio Zocchi

Emilio Zocchi

Emilio Zocchi was an Italian sculptor. He is best known for his busts, bas-reliefs and statuettes of classical and Renaissance individuals....

, both well respected academicians of the time. Romanelli later taught at the Academy. Raffaello's son was sculptor Romano Romanelli

Romano Romanelli

Romano Romanelli was an Italian sculptor.Romanelli was born in Florence, the son of sculptor Raffaello Romanelli, who created works such as the "Monument to Garibaldi" for Siena, in a vigorously impressionistic 'verist' style...

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His works include the Monument to Carol I of Romania

Carol I of Romania

Carol I , born Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was reigning prince and then King of Romania from 1866 to 1914. He was elected prince of Romania on 20 April 1866 following the overthrow of Alexandru Ioan Cuza by a palace coup...

, located at Peleş Castle

Peles Castle

Peleș Castle is a Neo-Renaissance castle in the Carpathian Mountains, near Sinaia, in Prahova County, Romania, on an existing medieval route linking Transylvania and Wallachia, built between 1873 and 1914...

, a Monument to Czar Alexander II

Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II , also known as Alexander the Liberator was the Emperor of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881...

 in Russia ,the bust of Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier and musician, who also wrote a famous autobiography. He was one of the most important artists of Mannerism.-Youth:...

 on the Ponte Vecchio

Ponte Vecchio

The Ponte Vecchio is a Medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers...

 in Florence, Italy, the equestrian Garibaldi Monument

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and...

 in Siena, Italy (ca. 1896) and a monument to John Wister (1903) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Romanelli Gardens in Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

, which contains several works by Raffaello, is named in his honor. Raffaello created the 1927 bust of Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, mononymously referred to as Dante , was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia ...

on Belle Isle Park

Belle Isle Park

Belle Isle is a island park in the Detroit River, between the United States mainland and Canada, managed by the Detroit Recreation Department. It is connected to the rest of Detroit, Michigan by the MacArthur Bridge...

 in Detroit.

He made the bronze equestrian portrait of General Louis Botha

Louis Botha

Louis Botha was an Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa—the forerunner of the modern South African state...

, statesman and soldier, on horseback which stands outside Parliament in Cape Town in South Africa.