AN ITALIAN MARBLE BUST OF A MAIDEN EMBLEMATIC OF SPRING

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Pietro Calvi, born in Milan, was educated at the Accademia and later studied under Giovanni Seleroni. He achieved international recognition during the last quarter of the 19th Century and exhibited widely in Europe, most notably at the Royal Academy in London between 1872 and 1883. He was known for both his work in marble and in bronze, and frequently combined the two with great succes. Calvi often drew his subjects from the Arts, particularly from the opera and Shakespeare. He sculpted figures which now decorate Milan Cathedral and the Galleria Vittoria Emmanuel and in 1877 presented five busts to the city of Naples -Primavera, Mariuccia, Othello, Selika and Gennaro- as well as a statue of Ariadne.

AN ITALIAN MARBLE BUST OF A MAIDEN EMBLEMATIC OF SPRING

BY PIETRÒ CALVI, MILAN, DATED 1871

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AN ITALIAN MARBLE BUST OF A MAIDEN EMBLEMATIC OF SPRING
BY PIETRÒ CALVI, MILAN, DATED 1871
Signed to the back Calvi/1871/Milano, on a circular spreading socle
29 in. (74 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The present bust by Calvi of a maiden emblematic of Spring is possibly an earlier version of the Primavera bust presented to the city of Naples.

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