Paolo Troubetzkoy
Paolo Troubetzkoy was an Italo-Russian sculptor celebrated for lively, impressionistic bronzes that capture social and literary figures with swift modeling and fluent surfaces. A cosmopolitan portraitist active in Italy, Russia, Paris, and the U.S., he favored immediacy over academic polish. The Vatican Museums preserve his bronze bust of Dante Alighieri, where flickering textures animate the poet’s iconic profile.
Artworks by Paolo Troubetzkoy
in the Vatican Museums
#142
Bust of Dante Alighieri
Loose, alive modeling turns Dante’s stern mask into quick, breathing bronze.
Signature impressionistic bronze by Troubetzkoy.
