Ettore Ximenes

Ximenes' "Dante" can be found in Washington, D.C.'s Meridian Hill Park.

Ettore Ximenes (April 11, 1855, Palermo – December 20, 1926, Rome) was an Italian sculptor of religious and mythological subjects.

There are several significant works by Ximenes in the United States. These include:
*Giovanni da Verrazzano, Battery Park, Manhattan, New York, 1909
*Dante Alighieri in Dante Park at Lincoln Center, New York City and Meridian Hill Park, Washington D.C. - castings of the same work, 1921

References

Verrazzano Monument, 1909

*Fried, Frederick & Edmund V. Gillon Jr., New York Civic Sculpture, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1976
*Goode, James M., The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington D.C. 1974
*Lederer, Joseph & Arley Bondarin, All Around Town: A Walking Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1975
*Mackay, James,The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977

External links

* Artnet.com biography: Ettore Ximenes