Leonardo Bistolfi was an Italian sculptor, an important exponent of Italian Symbolism. His first works Le lavandaie, Tramonto, Vespero, Boaro, Gli amanti, executed, show the influence of the Milanese Scapigliatura. He sculpted L'Angelo della morte for the Brayda tomb in the Turin cemetery known as the Cimitero Monumentale, and he produced a bust of the painter Antonio Fontanesi for the Accademia Albertina: these works show a turn towards Symbolism which the artist was never to abandon.