Galileo contemplating the globe. Bronze.

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47279i
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Formerly regarded as a portrait of Christopher Columbus, though not recorded by Ponce de León, op. cit. Identified as Galileo by Dr Federico Tognoni, 2008, and as a pair with a portrait of Columbus: a set of casts of the two sculptures was offered for sale at Sotheby's Olympia on 28 September 2005, lot 229

Physical description

1 sculpture : bronze ; bronze 35.5 x 26 cm

References note

Néstor Ponce de León, The Columbus gallery, New York: the author, 1893 (this work not mentioned)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 47279i

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