Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Sculpture the City and Belsize Park

the City and Belsize Park

sides and legs

the stem and top of the candlestick is decorated with a blue

plus a model number written by hand in red

Louis XV buffet/side cabinet

Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Sculpture the City and Belsize ParkA 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