At the exhibition of the Interprovincial Prelictorials in Pisa in 1935, the themes that inspired the sculptors were motherhood and a sports subject. Raffaello Consortini, member of the Fascist University Nucleus (NUF) of Volterra, presented Maternity and Torso of an athlete or Bust of a wrestler. Together with the other Volterra Mino Rosi and Raffaello Michelotti, he was admitted to the Littorals of Culture and Art which were held in Rome, at the building of the Faculty of Letters. Maternity took the second prize. The sculpture is inspired by and gives voice to the rhetoric of the family and of the demographic increase dear to the fascist regime.