Verdi, (sculpture).

Verdi, (sculpture).

Ferrari, Ettore, sculptor.

G. B. Bastianelli, founder.

Verdi, (sculpture).

Guiseppe Verdi, (sculpture).

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Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite and limestone.

Sculpture: approx. 36 x 26 x 20 in.; Middle: approx. 74 x 49 x 42 in.; Base: approx. 22 x 48 x 45 in.; Lower base: approx. 12 x 77 x 70 in.

(Sculpture, lower proper right side:) GB.BasManellifuse/ROMA (Just under bust:) La/Colonia (inscription illegible)L(inscription illegible)NA/of Philadelphia/Verdi/c. 1907 (Middle section, left side:) TRAVIATA/ANDENTINO (musical notes) Di quell'a Mor quell a/mor ch e pal-pi-to/Lombardi Ernani Forcari Altila Mticbrtch (?) (IAS files contain drawings by the SOS! surveyor which detail similar inscriptions and musical notes for Aida and Rigoletto which appear on the other sides of the middle section) signed

Bust of Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901) dressed in a jacket and a long scarf. He has a beard and moustache, and his hair is brushed back from his face. The bust rests on a tall, three-tiered base adorned on the back and both sides with the musical notes and a few words from his operas, Traviata, Aida, and Rigoletto. On the front of the base is a relief of a loosely-draped, bare-chested female figure holding a violin in her proper right hand. Her proper left hand is raised to her proper left ear.

Portrait male -- Verdi, Guiseppe -- Bust

Performing Arts -- Music -- Composer

Ethnic -- Italian

Performing Arts -- Opera -- Verdi

Literature -- Verdi -- Aida

Literature -- Verdi -- Rigoletto

Literature -- Verdi -- Traviata

Figure female -- Nude

Object -- Musical Instrument -- Violin

Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Administered by City of Philadelphia, Fairmount Park Commission, Memorial Hall, West Park, P. O. Box 21601, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131

Located Fairmount Park, Horticultural Center, west side of park, Belmont Avenue & North Horticultural Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gift of the Italian Colony of Philadelphia to the City in 1907.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985

City of Philadelphia, 1973.

Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 227.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.

National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, PA0061, 1989.

Monumental News, Aug. 1908, pg. 597.

Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 227.

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