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Venus After Antonio Canova
Venus After Antonio Canova
Dimensions (figure): H: 56 in / 142 cm
Dimensions (overall): H: 75.5 in / 192 cm | Dia: 19 in / 48 cm
Venus
After Antonio Canova
Carved from marble, the near life-size figure representing the goddess of Love & Beauty, her gaze directed to her left in homage to the Venus de Medici made in Ancient Greece, as she is draped in billowing folds of fabric, a decorated casket at her feet as she exits the bath.
Italian, circa 1870
Canova was commissioned to execute the original version of the Venus Italica at the suggestion of Ludovico I, King of Etruria, as a replacement for the Antique statue of the Medici Venus, which had been plundered by the French in 1802. At first reluctant to accept the commission, the challenge to surpass one of the masterpieces of Antique sculpture soon took hold of Canova. Completed in 1812, the sculpture was placed in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. Popular from the moment it was unveiled, the Venus was subsequently replicated by Canova and purchased by among others, the Marquess of Lansdowne, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and brother of Napoleon, and the Marquess of Londonderry. As one of the most popular sculptures of Canova, the Venus Italica is also copied by the most accomplished Italian sculptors all along the 19th century.
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