Nina, mad from love, after Galli, 1854
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26 x 39" My model is the marble in the Palazzo Reale in Milan by Galli. It's in splendid perfection 163 years after Galli sculpted her. Little is recorded of his life, less of who he used for a model here. It's a story from an opera of the 1700s: shocked into a psychotic break by the news of her lover's death in a duel, she reels backward in vertiginous peril. Of course, the gentlemen who fought duels might have taken peasant girls for lovers but they wouldn't have considered marrying one, so her delusions preceded her madness.