![]() ![]() It contains a script “Onorate L’Altissimo Poeta” – or “Honor the Poet of the Highest Regard”. ![]() ![]() Most people consider Dante’s monument in Santa Croce to be Ricci’s masterpiece. Highly influenced by Canova, Ricci took Carradoris post as the instructor of sculpture at the Accademia in 1802. The visitors to Santa Croce today get to admire a huge and beautiful cenotaph to Dante, made by Stefano Ricci between 18. The Neoclassical sculptor Stefano Ricci was a student of Francesco Carradoris at the Accademia in Florence. As I visited the tombs of Niccolò Machiavelli, Galileo Galilei, Gioachino Rossini and, the “master”, Michelangelo Buonarroti, I wondered: how come someone that was supposed to be buried in Santa Croce is not here in fact?! Where is Dante Alighieri? But then, as I entered the church, my admiration turned into curiosity. The king of the recently united Italy, Vittorio Emanuele II, unveiled the sculpture in the presence of the highest dignitaries and township of Florence.ĭuring my recent trip to Italy, I first admired Pazzi’s statue of Dante, that was moved to its present location on the steps of Santa Croce in 1968. On May 14 th 1865 a statue of Dante created by a sculptor Enrico Pazzi was placed in the middle of piazza Santa Croce.
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