[1] Created by the Milanese-born sculptor Carlo Brioschi, it was set on an exedra and pedestal designed with the help of architect Clarence H.

[2] The statue was unveiled and dedicated in a ceremony on August 3, 1933, as part of Italian day at the fair.

[3] The bronze, beaux arts statue shows Columbus standing and gesturing into the distance with one hand.

On the sides of the statue's art deco pedestal are carved depictions of: one of Columbus' ships, the Santa Maria; astronomer and mathematician, Paolo Toscanelli, who plotted the course to the "New World;" the explorer, Amerigo Vespucci; and the seal of the City of Genoa.

Despite appearances, Brioschi's son has denied that the figure holding a fasces representing Strength was a portrait of Benito Mussolini.