Discusses a bronze Laocoön recently sold at Bonham's. Della Valle helped interpret correctly the bronze and its attribution in the Doccia models' inventory.
Dimitrios Zikos is an independent art historian specialized in Florentine bronze sculpture of the Renaissance and the Baroque. He studied Art History and Archaeology in the Universities of Munich and Freiburg i. Br. from where he obtained his PhD. He was a Henkell Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, and has co-curated exhibitions at the Gardner (2003), the Bargello (2003-2014), the Liechtenstein Princely Collections (2005), the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (2015), and the Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze (2023). He has published widely on Italian Sculpture and taught at the University of Innsbruck (2012-2013). He is an Honorary Member of the Amici di Doccia and the President of the not-for-profit Friends of the Bargello.
