AN ITALIAN BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE BUST OF OTHELLO, by Dubini, the moustached Moor wearing a turban and looking to his left, signed Dubini. sc/MILAN, on a square tapering and fluted socle, inscribed, Othello, late 19th Century

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AN ITALIAN BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE BUST OF OTHELLO, by Dubini, the moustached Moor wearing a turban and looking to his left, signed Dubini. sc/MILAN, on a square tapering and fluted socle, inscribed, Othello, late 19th Century
24in. (61cm.) high

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In Shakespeare's tragedy first performed about 1603, Othello was a highly regarded Moor of Venice who married Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantia. The villain Iago leads Othello to believe her unfaithful. Othello smothers her to death before learning of her innocence, after which he kills himself.

The story was set to music in operas by Rossini in 1816 and Verdi in 1887.

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