Bust of Percy Bysshe Shelley

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TITLE

Bust of Percy Bysshe Shelley

SUMMARY

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.

NAME

Ezekiel, Moses (artist)

DATE

1890

MATERIALS

marble

GENRE

busts (sculpture)
marble (rock)

PERSONAL NAME SUBJECT

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

ACQUISITION NOTE

Gift of Moses Ezekiel, 3 April 1909.

LOCATION

KSH

Salone

ART-027


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