Venus italica

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Title

Venus italica

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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Collection

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Description

marble 1752 x 534 x 534 mm - Venus by Canova presented by Mr Moss Davis 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 ...

Format

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Date created

circa 1812

Creator

Antonio Canova

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https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/727

Related subjects

figures (representations) / goddesses / Romans / drapery (representations) / tunics / Object

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