Monument to the Fallen, Piazza San Francesco, Pistoia
The Monumento ai Caduti is a Fascist era monument located in the center of Piazza San Francesco in Pistoia, region of Tuscany, Italy. The monument was meant to recall those fallen in the battles of World War I between 1915-1918. While completed some years before, the bronze statue was only installed in 1926 with the King in attendance. The bronze statue depicts a muscular, semi nude, semi-recumbent man sheltering a statue of victory as he glares to the distance. The statue is on a marble base with flanking bas-reliefs  depicting a "Winged victory" and a mother and child sharing bundles of wheat (fasce). The sculptor, Silvio Carnevari (1891-1953) would go on to sculpt depictions of athletes for the Stadio Mussolini] in Rome. Many of this statues, including "The Pugilist" and his "Monument to Victory" (Monument to those fallen in the wars of Africa) at Civita Castellana, also focus on the athletic man in combat.