Pair Sculpture Bust White Italian Marble Alabaster Portraits Dante And Cervantes

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Pair Sculpture Bust White Italian Marble Alabaster Portraits Dante And Cervantes
after 1800

Name: Pair Sculpture Bust White Italian Marble Alabaster Portraits Dante And Cervantes
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A very interesting pair of grand tour sculpture busts portraits of Dante and Cervantes in a pure white Italian white alabaster, carved in the 19th century in Tuscany The "Sommo Poeta" Dante Alighieri universally knew as the father of the Italian Language and one of the most important Italian writer poet and politician. Author of the Divina Commedia in english The Divine Comedy It widely considered to be the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. is one of his most famous works and is a long Italian narrative poem and an immaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Dante was born in Florence, Republic of Florence, the exact date of his birth is unknown, although it is generally believed to be around 1265. This can be deduced from autobiographic allusions in the Divine Comedy. Its first section, the Inferno, begins, "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita" ("Midway upon the journey of our life"), implying that Dante was around 35 years old, since the average lifespan according to the Bible (Psalm 89:10, Vulgate) is 70 years; and since his imaginary travel to the netherworld took place in 1300, he was most probably born around 1265. Some verses of the Paradiso section of the Divine Comedy also provide a possible clue that he was born under the sign of Gemini: "As I revolved with the eternal twins, I saw revealed, from hills to river outlets, the threshing-floor that makes us so ferocious" (XXII 151–154). In 1265, the sun was in Gemini between approximately 11 May and 11 June (Julian calendar).Dante claimed that his family descended from the ancient Romans (Inferno, XV, 76). Dante Alighieri was source of inspiration for many sculptor and artist as testament of his greatness and as a proof his usually represented with a laurel wreath symbol of glory, erudition, victory. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616, show to the observer a typical vision of the Spanish writer with distinguishing feature of the epoca ( the typical collar of the shirt and the buttons) and with the tribute of the greatness of the character with the laurel crown on the head. Widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern nove and one of the pinnacles of world literature. No authenticated image of Cervantes exists. He wanted a now-lost portrait by Juan de Jáuregui used as a frontispiece of his Exemplary Novels. Since the publisher would not pay for the engraving this would require, Cervantes supplied in its place a description of himself: ...This person whom you see here, with an oval visage, chestnut hair, smooth open forehead, lively eyes, a hooked but well-proportioned nose, and silvery beard that twenty years ago was golden, large moustache, small mouth, teeth not much to speak of, for he has only six, in bad condition and worse placed, no two of them corresponding to each other, a figure midway between the two extremes, neither tall nor short, a vivid complexion, rather fair than dark, somewhat stooped in the shoulders, and not very lightfooted... Starting in the ancient Egypt and consolidated in Europe, in Tuscany the use of alabaster in sculpture was very usual until the beginning of the 20th Century especially for the grand tour production. The Grand Tour was the 17th- and 18th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a chaperone, such as a family member) when they had come of age (about 21 years old). The custom — which flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large-scale rail transport in the 1840s and was associated with a standard itinerary — served as an educational rite of passage. Though the Grand Tour was primarily associated with the British nobility and wealthy landed gentry, similar trips were made by wealthy young men of other Protestant Northern European nations, and, from the second half of the 18th century, by some South and North Americans.

Creation Year:
after 1800
Dimensions:
Height: 9.06 in (23 cm)Width: 4.73 in (12 cm)Depth: 3.15 in (8 cm)
Medium:
Alabaster
Period:
19th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Roma, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1350113113312

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Antonio Canova Ebe Aprés Ebe White Marble Sculpture 19th Century Italian

By Antonio Canova

Located in Roma, IT

An important grand tour Antonio Canova Ebe (Aprés), carved in white marble by an Italian sculptor artist in the 19th century from a block of white marble. The work depicts the go...

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Marble

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