Cesare Aureli

His independent works recall the sculptures of Luca della Robbia, and can be admired on the facade of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.

Aureli's statue of the St Thomas Aquinas was presented to Pope Leo XIII during his episcopal jubilee celebrations.

[1] There are two versions of this statue: the original in the Vatican Library (1889)[2] and one under the entrance portico of the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum on the Quirinal Hill.

Aureli also made a marble group Galileo showing his astronomic model to Milton (1912), deeded to the University of Rome.

[3] Among other works are a statue of cardinal Guglielmo Massaia (1893, Church of San Francesco al Tuscolo in Frascati; a statue of St Thomas Aquinas; Saints Anthony Mary Zaccaria, Bonfiglio, and Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1903, Basilica of St Peter's, Rome); and the statue of Saint Cecilia (in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere).