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2 unusual facts about Ettore Ximenes


Allegorical representations of Argentina

The work, done by Italian sculptor Ettore Ximenes, is entlited "The Republic", but others consider it a bust of "Homeland".

Dante Park

Because of fundraising difficulties, by 1921, the 600th anniversary of Dante's death, a smaller statue was completed by Ettore Ximenes and placed in the location at Broadway at West 64th Street.



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