Lorenzo Bartolini

Exhibited by Walter Padovani

Material Marble

Dimensions 99 cm x 184 cm

Place of Creation Florence

Status Vetted

About the Work

The marble group Charity by Lorenzo Bartolini is a scaled-down version of the celebrated Charity the Educator, commissioned from Bartolini in 1817 by Ferdinando III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, for the chapel of Villa di Poggio Imperiale. The marble was completed in 1835, and the new Grand Duke, Leopoldo II, deeply moved by the extraordinary beauty of the work, decided to display it in his residence at Palazzo Pitti, where it remains to this day.

More recently, it was exhibited alongside the plaster version held at the Gipsoteca Bartolini in the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence as part of the exhibition Il volto e l'allegoria. Sculture di Lorenzo Bartolini, curated by Carlo Sisi and hosted by the Fondazione Luigi Rovati in Milan.

The domestic scale of this sculpture reflects Bartolini’s practice of producing smaller replicas of his most celebrated works, intended for his distinguished patrons.

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