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CANOVA, Antonio (b. 1757, Possagno, d. 1822, Venezia) |
Venus Italica1819Marble Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence | |
Canova's Italian Venus (Venus Italica) was commissioned as a replacement for the famous Medici Venus which had been seized by Napoleon in 1802 and removed to the Louvre. (It was eventually returned.) The Medici Venus is itself a 1st century BC copy of a work by Cleomenes of Athens. The statue is exhibited in the Hall of Venus of the Palazzo Pitti, decorated by Pietro da Cortona. |
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