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The marble block is said to have been used for Thorvaldsen’s statue of Pius 7. in the church of St. Peter, AX392, see a remark in the Kunstblatt 21.3.1839.
If this is the case, the Pope and Catholicism may have been included in Nerly’s satire.
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