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A version now in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples (no. 10516), first recorded in 1644 in the Farnese Collection, is likely to be sixteenth-century Florentine bronze work, and the earliest bronze on which all the much later Neapolitan bronzes, including this one, were based.
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Manchester
Title
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
Date
1886
Medium
bronze
Measurements
Plinth: H 8 x W 47 x D 24 cm (E);
H 32 x W 42 x D 22 cm (E)
Accession number
JRL19120400
Acquisition method
bequeathed by Professor Richard Copley Christie, 1901
Work type
Bust
Inscription description
inscribed on front: Dantes
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