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Detail View: Dante Collection: Dante Alighieri

Image Number: 
JRL19120401
Reference Number: 
VFA.43
Image Title: 
Dante Alighieri
Parent Work Title: 
Dante Alighieri
Creator: 
Salvatore Errico, 1848-1934
Creator Role: 
Sculptor
Date Created: 
1886
Description: 
Bronze head of Dante, right profile. At the Rome exhibition of Oggetti Artistici di Metal in 1886 Salvatore Errico and Sabatino de Angelis won bronze medals for the quality of their work in bronze-cast reproductions and examples by both were among 24 examples bought by the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce for later distribution among Italian museums and art schools. Errico’s was a replica of a 16th-century bronze bust of Dante (maker unknown) shown amid group no. 16 of the modern casts (catalogue p. 252): his statue of two dancing fauns was in the same group while his bronze reproduction busts of Cicero and the young Brutus, copied from originals in the Museo Nazionale, were in a group no. 47 (p. 261). The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, has a fine copy of Errico’s Dante reproduction, bequeathed as part of the library of the University’s bibliophile benefactor Professor Richard Copley Christie in 1901.
Category of Material: 
Visual
Sub-Category: 
Fine Art
Technique Used: 
Sculpting
Support: 
Copper (metal)
Support: 
Wood
Creation Site: 
Italy
People Covered: 
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Item Height: 
Bust: 320 mm
Item Height: 
Plinth: 80 mm
Item Width: 
Bust: 420 mm
Item Width: 
Plinth: 470 mm
Provenance: 
Christie, Richard Copley, 1830-1901, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
* Lowe, Charles, and John R. Whitley. Four National Exhibitions in London and Their Organiser. London: T.F. Unwin, 1892
Bibliography: 
* Oggetti Artistici Di Metallo: Esposizioni Retrospettive E Contemporanee Di Industrie Artistiche: Esposizione Del 1886. Roma: G. Civelli, 1886