The Reading Girl (La Leggitrice)
1856 · marble
height without base: 122 cm (48 1/16 in.)
base (height): 51.5 cm (20 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art
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Pietro Magni
1817
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Pietro Magni was an Italian sculptor. He is best known for his Girl Reading, first carved in 1856; today the original may be seen in Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan, while copies exist in numerous other museum collections, e.g. in Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Lisbon. Among Magni's other works are a public monument to Leonardo da Vinci on Piazza della Scala and several marble sculpture groups; he also executed statues for the Milan Cathedral in the 1860s.
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