Bust of Percy Bysshe Shelley

The American sculptor Moses Ezekiel came to Rome in 1879, aged twenty-nine. The elaborate studio he built in the ruins of the Baths of Diocletian was, said one observer, ‘a stupendous spectacle, strewn with the mighty monuments of the past, a wilderness from which nothing now springs but grass, fever germs and noble thoughts’. The artist donated this bust in 1909 together with a beautiful first edition of The Revolt of Islam.

Ezekiel, Moses (artist)

1890

marble

busts (sculpture)
marble (rock)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

Gift of Moses Ezekiel, 3 April 1909.

KSH

Salone

ART-027