These Renaissance busts were originally in the patio of the early 16th C Spanish Castle of Velez Blanco, which was abandoned over the centuries, bought by the American zillionaire George Blumenthal, and shipped in toto to his estate in the USA around 1900. In 1941 the patio, with its contents, was given by bequest to the Metropolitan, where it was installed in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.
Julius Caesar
Nymph of Spring
Italian nobleman
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