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In 1957 Stefano Rivetti had entrusted the project to the artist Bruno Innocenti, professor at the State Institute of Art in Florence. The first sketches of the statue date back to 1960. In 1964 it was entrusted to Eng. Luigi Musumeci the study and the structural and load-bearing project of the structure, who began the construction of the concrete and iron armor, fixed to the foundations dug into the rock of the mountain with the use of over 14 tons of iron which became the load-bearing skeleton of the 'Opera. In September of the same year, the casting of the marble and cement conglomerate that would make up the body of the statue began Finally, between the end of 1964 and the first months of 1965, the chiselling of the entire surface of the sculpture personally created by Bruno Innocenti took place. The construction was carried out by a Friulian company