Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Redo 112 cm X 77

112 cm X 77

a beautiful maiden picking flowers whilst being serenaded by a young man playing a lute

This scene depicts a Shakespearian courting couple in a very grand interior setting

Each candelabra having twin candle holders and each bobeche in gilt bronze with fruiting swags and fruiting acanthus finial to the center

Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Redo 112 cm X 77A good antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze and marble bust of Dante Alighieri, circa 1880. The bronze is most likely Florentine and modeled as the 13th century Italian Poet, writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri (1265 1321), the writer of one of literatures most important works, "The Divine Comedy". The bronze was created by the lost wax method and sits on the original and substantial variegated marble plinth. Condition is very good. Mounted: 16" tall