Cod: 273983
Head of Giuseppe Garibaldi
Author : Ercole Rosa (1846 - 1893)
Period: Second half of the 19th century
It is the portrait of the most popular "international" hero of the Risorgimento, military, political, charismatic man at times divine, this splendid bronze head of Garibaldi: on him everything can be found books, monographs, fascinating stories, epic stories between myth and legend, photographs, prints, paintings, sculptures. The author of this work, signed on the back, is Ercole Rosa (S.Severino Marche, Mk 1846 - Rome 1893) Roman sculptor "storyteller" of the heroes of the Risorgimento. The fame came with the construction of the monument to the brothers Enrico and Giovanni Cairoli created by Rosa to commemorate the death of the two patriots which took place in the clash of Villa Gl