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The Samuel E. Kress Foundation
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New York 19, N. Y. 

February 1, 1954

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#8145/6 [[underlined]BOSINO DA CAMPIONE[[/underlined]

face, the other that of an aged man with a beard, and an upturned face.

The neck of the statuette has been broken.

Inventory numbers 2925 and F.551.

[[underlined]"JUSTIFIA"[[/underlined]

Marble. Height: 25-1/2" Ca 1357.

Justice is symbolically treated as a young woman, her attribute of scales suspended from her left hand. Part of her ride is clutched against her by her left arm. In the right hand she grasps the hilt of a sword (the blade is missingh).

Inventory numbers 296 and F. 55E.

The statuettes of[[underlined] Prudentia[[/underlined]  and [[underlined] Justitia [[/underlined]  find interesting parallels in figures from the tomb of Folchiso deli Schisel in Cremona, a signed and dated (1357) work by Fonino da Campione, "....the leading sculptor in Lombardy in the second half of the fourteenth century......" The[[underlined] Justitia"[[/underlined] can also be compared to the similar allegorical figure on the equestrian statue of Bernabo Visconti in Milan".

Collection: 
Prince of Liechtenstein,
Chapel of Fort Liechtenstein, Moedling.

Bibliography: 
Führer die Fürstlich 
Liechtenstein'ache Genildegalerie
Wien, by A. Eronfeld, Vienna, 1931,
Gallery II, p. XVIII, described as Naples, second half of the XIV[[?]] century.

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