Bust of St. Thomas Aquinas in Mullen Library

NMC 25

St. Thomas Aquinas

Donated to The Catholic University of America (CUA) by the Catholics of Great Britain and Ireland (residing in Rome) in 1889. According to the 1889 Year Book of CUA, “The well-known effigy of the Saint, on the Pincian Hill, was at first considered the best model to reproduce.” But Guglielmi wanted to aim higher. He travelled around Italy studying portraits of St. Thomas, “and the result is this superb work, which may well be considered the best likeness of the Angelic Doctor in existence.”

Luigi Guglielmi (1834-1907)

Amanda Bernard

1889

35 in. x 25 in.

Marble