BY PROFESSEORE CESARE LAPINI, RETAILED BY GALLERY BAZZANTI, FLORENCE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Professeore Cesare Lapini was born in Florence in 1848 and exhibited in Rome in the 1880s and 1890s. He was celebrated as a sculptor of genre figures and groups. The present large marble group of Venus and Cupid is also signed by Pietro Bazzanti, suggesting a collaboration between the sculptors who each operated successful marble workshops in Florence.