The bronze Statue(17) of Alessandro Rossi(18) created by the sculptor Giulio Monteverde in 1902 was located at the cross-roads in front of the Church of S. Antonio Abate at the beginning of the new neighbourhood, with the aim of celebrating industrial civilisation and its most important representative. A working mother(19) is sitting on the last step of the quadrangular plinth facing the factory, her child pulls himself up onto her lap to offer a flower to Alessandro Rossi, who is standing on a cylindrical base ending with a cogwheel(20) in the proud pose of a speaker and scholar, holding his right hand close by his side and his left hand on the books resting on a small table. The mother probably represents the town of Schio which wishes to offer the new generation the Rossi ideal, a combination of study and work.
Other important monuments celebrate the Rossi Wool Mill in the Jacquard Garden.

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