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Enrico Butti (Italian, 1847-1932), "Model for the Monument to the Battle of Legnano", patinated bronze, signature inscribed on self-base, h. 38 in., w. 20 1/2 in., d. 15 1/2 in. Note: Sculptor Enrico Butti created the prototype for this work as a model for the monument to the Battle of Legnano, specifically the compagnia della morte where the Lombard League defeated the forces of the Holy Roman Empire led by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. The work was exhibited at the Triennale of Milan exposition in 1897, and it proved quite popular, allowing the artist to finally gain recognition for his exceptional talent. As Ashton Rollins Willard describes the piece in History of Modern Italian Art, his face as well as his shirt of mail and his battered shield were of that strange archaic type which sends a shiver through ones muscles by its almost uncanny evocation of a forgotten past. The monument which was inaugurated in 1900 still stands in Legnano today. Ref.: Willard, Ashton Rollins. History of Modern Italian Art. Norwood: Norwood Press, 1898, p. 229.