SCHADOW, Ridolfo
(b. 1786, Roma, d. 1822, Roma)

Girl with Doves (Innocence)

1820
Marble, height 136 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

After his return to Rome from Berlin, Ridolfo devoted himself to genre subjects, in which he combined Neoclassical formal structures with Romantic notions. The figure of Innocence is an example of the newly developed type of the classicizing genre figure.