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CT museum makes most high-profile acquisition in more than a decade. Historic piece listed for $4M.

The historic sculpture — purchased from a dealer — will go on display in Connecticut Thursday. The museum considered the purchase for over a year, consulting with researchers and conservators.

Vanessa Sigalas, Associate Curator for Collections Research at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, talks about the details about the “Striding Mars” , a bronze statuette by Italian Renaissance Sculptor Giambologna that was cast in Florence around 1580. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art recently acquired the statuette and plans on putting it on display near the “Venus with a Nymph and Satyr” by Pietro Francavilla in the Avery Court. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

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