Monument to Victor Emmanuel II
Winged Victory (right)
Winged Lion
Rome Italy
2016

Winged Lion by Giuseppe Tonnini and Winged Victory on naval ram by Edoardo Rubino.

The winged lion is a mythological creature that resembles a lion with bird-like wings.

Winged Victory on naval ram by Edoardo Rubino.

The goddess Victoria riding on a quadriga, 1908 by Carlo Fontana and Paolo Bartolini, equestrian statue at the top of the Monumento Vittorio Emanuele II (Monument to Victor Emmanuel II).

Two bronze quadrigae (four-horse chariots), each of which is driven by a winged victory, crown the monument. The quadriga on the right, the work of Carlo Fontana, symbolises the freedom of the citizens (CIVIVM LIBERTATI), while the one on the left, the work of Paolo Bartolini, symbolises the unity of the fatherland (PATRIAE VNITATI), as the two inscriptions proclaim.


Grand marble neoclassical temple honoring Italy's first king & First World War soldiers.

The Piazza Venezia square has the white and colossal monument of Vittorio Emanuele II, also known as the Altara della Patria (altar of the fatherland), the typewriter and the Wedding Cake building of Rome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_II_Monument

The Victor Emmanuel II National Monument, also known as Vittoriano or Altare della Patria (Altar of the Fatherland), is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy, in Rome, Italy. It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was realized by Giuseppe Sacconi.

From an architectural perspective, it was conceived as a modern forum, an agora on three levels connected by stairways and dominated by a portico characterized by a colonnade. The complex process of national unity and liberation from foreign domination carried out by King Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy, to whom the monument is dedicated, has a great symbolic and representative value, being architecturally and artistically centred on the Italian unification—for this reason the Vittoriano is considered one of the national symbols of Italy.