Italian Sculpture 1800–1900
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 12 Italian sculptures which date from between 1800 and 1900. This collection includes white marble figure sculptures and busts, several of which take the female form as their subject, and have an erotic or exotic character. The finest of the sculptures, by such sculptors as Tadolini, Rossetti and Argenti, are divided between the Kibble Palace glasshouse in the Botanic Gardens and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. The mid-19th century witnessed a significant revival in Italian marble sculpture production, which proved fashionable among wealthier middle-class collectors in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Collectors in the west of Scotland, like George White of Overtoun and Leonard Gow, participated in this fashion, and a few examples from their collections ultimately came to Glasgow Museums.
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