Dancer

This beautiful dancer is sculpted in an extremely elegant pose characterized by her raised arms, the bending of her left knee, and the hieratic smile that she directs at the viewer. The subject wears a band with flowers on her head while a veil on her body allows to look underneath her legs. The usage of white marble for the dancer’s skin and the one of painted alabaster for her veil create a highly refined decorative effect. Mario Dante Zoi was an important Florentine sculptor who worked from the second half of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, leaving a series of elegant sculptures that united Liberty style predominance of decorative characters with Art Deco purity of lines.