This portray in colossal proportions of the King of Sardinia - and Italy after 1861 - was commissioned to Vincenzo Vela by the municipal council of Turin. As he did in other portraits, Vela does not merely provide a naturalistic image of the man, but goes beyond it to include allegorical suggestions.
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