Ettore Ximenes Ximenes ' `` Dante '' can be found in Washington , D.C. 's Meridian Hill Park . Ettore Ximenes ( April 11 , 1855 , Palermo – December 20 , 1926 , Rome ) was an Italian sculptor of religious and mythological subjects . There are several significant works by Ximenes in the United States . These include : Giovanni da Verrazzano , Battery Park , Manhattan , New York , 1909 Dante Alighieri in Dante Park at Lincoln Center , New York City and Meridian Hill Park , Washington D.C. - castings of the same work , 1921 References Verrazzano Monument , 1909 Fried , Frederick & Edmund V. Gillon Jr. , New York Civic Sculpture , Dover Publications , Inc. , New York , 1976 Goode , James M. , The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C. , Smithsonian Institute Press , Washington D.C. 1974 Lederer , Joseph & Arley Bondarin , All Around Town : A Walking Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in New York , Charles Scribner 's Sons , New York , 1975 Mackay , James , The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze , Antique Collectors Club , Woodbridge , Suffolk 1977 External links Artnet.com biography : Ettore Ximenes  This Italian biographical article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .  This sculptor -related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . Categories : 1855 births | 1919 deaths | Italian sculptors | Italian people stubs | Sculptor stubs In other languages : Deutsch | Italiano | Português 