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Still life with game, fruit and basket
Gone to Calvary
In the Duomo of Monza
Mountain pass with snow
Naked in the mirror
Self portrait
View of Cairo
Mills in Monza
From work. The return from the spinning mill
Lamentation over the Dead Christ with Saint John the Baptist
The libation
Female bust
View of the new district in Monza
Leda with the swan

Female bust

Giuseppe Grandi

Displayed in:

House of the Humiliated

House of the Humiliated

Via Teodolinda, 4, Monza

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Signed by the great Lombard sculptor protagonist of the art scene of the second half of the nineteenth century, the piece represents a young noblewoman, elegantly dressed, with her hair tied up and a lace dress over a tight corset on the bust and decorated with bouquets of flowers. On the woman's shoulder a bird rests holding a rolled-up piece of paper between its paws, hence the name messenger of love, since the young woman seems to turn her head towards the animal as if listening, with a pensive and melancholy gaze . The woman also wears a double round of pearls closed by a cameo with a lily and pearl earrings, according to the fashion of the time. At the moment there are no certain elements to identify the portrayed: the piece, however, comes from a deposit in the Royal Villa of Monza frequented, starting in 1868, by the then Prince Umberto of Savoy and his wife Margherita; given the high stylistic quality of the work and its provenance, it could be a romantic reinterpretation of an image of Princess Margherita or a member of the family.
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Title: Female bust

Author: Giuseppe Grandi

Date: 1866 - 1868

Technique: Marble

Displayed in: House of the Humiliated

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