Emilio Gallori

He was born in Florence and trained at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts,[1] where sculpture was taught by Aristodemo Costoli.

Gallori designed the Monument to Metastasio which stands in the piazza in front of Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome.

He created the statue of St James the Less for the exterior of the rebuilt Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls.

[2] Among his masterworks, was the design the prominent Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi in the Janiculum of Rome, inaugurated on 20 September 1895.

After the death of the sculptor Enrico Chiaradia in 1902, Gallori helped bring his fellow's design to completion the project of the massive bronze equestrian statue of the king Emmanuel Vittorio II for the Altare della Patria in Rome.