One of the best sculptures I know of Marino Marini is L’angelo della Città in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection alongside the Canal Grande in Venice (1948). Peggy Guggenheim describes the Angel of the Citadel in her memoir, Confessions of an Art Addict:
It was a statue of a horse and rider, the latter with his arms spread out in ecstasy, and to emphasize this, Marino added a phallus in full erection. But when he had it cast in bronze for me he had the phallus made separately, so that it could be screwed in and out at leisure.
And as she continues:
When the nuns came to be blessed by the Patriarch, who on special holy days, went by my house in a motor boat, I detached the phallus of the horseman and hid it in a drawer. I also did this on certain days when I had to receive stuffy visitors, but occasionally I forgot, and when confronted with the phallus found myself in great embarrassment.
