Sculpture Portrait Bust Of Dante Alighieri Italian White Alabaster Grand Tour

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Sculpture Portrait Bust Of Dante Alighieri Italian White Alabaster Grand Tour
after 1900

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a portrait bust in alabaster marble of 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. 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 1900
Dimensions:
Height: 9.06 in (23 cm)Width: 4.73 in (12 cm)Depth: 2.37 in (6 cm)
Medium:
Alabaster
Period:
Early 20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Roma, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU135018772372

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