L'Attrice Americana (The American Actress, 1950) Paesaggio (Landscape, 1955) Nudo di Donna (Woman's Nude, 1955) Autoritratto (Self-portrait, 1944) Sante Monachesi (1910–1991), was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola romana (Roman School) and founder in 1932 of the Movimento Futurista nelle Marche (Futurist Movement of Marche).

Immediately after World War II, Monachesi did expressionist and fauve painting, also as a member of the Scuola Romana, becoming part of the group of "Balduina" with David Grazioso and Ferdinando Bellorini, but it was especially in plastic sculpture that his research became innovative.

He explored new materials and compositions, and on the occasion of the Moon landing, he founded the Agrà Movement, a futurist current looking at these exalting successes of technology and thus expresses in artwork the absence of gravity, the Zero-G that by subtracting from bodies their terrestrial weight, proposes to free man and art from all conditioning.

Monachesi's pieces in coloured methacrylate are truly dynamic action-sculptures: "... the artist moulds the transparent and fluorescent perpex sheet, and succeeds in capturing and freeing the void of the full figure it circumscribes," (Floriano de Santis, 1990).

They were defined "primary forms of matter and cosmos" by art critic Franco Passoni,[3] well qualifies the Jesolo Exhibition of 1978, which Monachesi entitled To Tie & To Dissolve.