Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Redo a beautiful maiden picking flowers

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

30" tall X 11" diameter

5" tall X 5

The barometer in a gilded metal case with a white enamel dial

he had his first solo exhibition at the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts

Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Redo a beautiful maiden picking flowersA 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