Professor Francesco Fabi-Altini was an Roman sculptor. He studied at the Roman Accademia di Belle Arti and then at the Accademia di San Luca under Tadolini. He completed his apprenticeship under Tenerani. Altini was also an Associate of the Academy of the Academy of Ferrara and an Academician of the Academies of Perugia and Bologna. Altini’s most famous monuments are the colossal figures of Meditation and Prayer, with which he won the Roman competition and now stand at the entrance gates of the Campo Santo, at Verona. Altini’s studio was in Rome, but he often sent work abroad, on commission or to be exhibited. For example, there is a statue of ‘Adam and Eve’ at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California.