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A white marble grand tour version of Venus de Medici carved by an Italian Sculptor artist in the 19th century in Italy, probably in Florence.
The Venus of Medici is a one of the most famous and admire statue, and was inspired, by Praxiteles's Aphrodite of Cnidus, with particular similarities to the Capitoline Venus.
The work arrived in Rome at an unspecified time in antiquity and perhaps decorated Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli. During the Renaissance, with the collecting fever of the city's great families, it was purchased by the then Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, in an unscrupulous move that removed the collection of the late Cardinal Andrea della Valle, in which the work was located, from the legitimate Capranica heirs. It was then displayed at the Villa Medici, with the first reliable documentation dating back to 1638. In 1677, it was brought to Florence by Cosimo III, who, despite his reputation as a "bigot," had no qualms about placing the beautiful nude goddess in the Tribuna of the Uffizi. Since then, it has occupied a privileged place in the gallery's collection of ancient statues.
Symbol of ancient beauty in the neoclassical period, it was admired by Napoleon, who expressly asked to see it during his brief stay in the city in 1796. After the conquest of Italy and the transfer of artistic assets to Paris (1803), the Venus was included in the program of transferring the works by sea to Palermo planned by the Grand Duke Ferdinand III to allow the sculpture to remain in Italy; but the expedient did not work and the Venus was therefore inevitably among the first works to be taken away by Napoleon's spoliations of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1803), of which we have as precise testimony the draft by the Sienese restorer Vittorio Sampieri, then under contract to the director of the Uffizi Tommaso Puccini. The Medici Gallery therefore had to make do with a copy made by Antonio Canova and the original was recovered only with the Restoration (1815). The French consoled themselves with the arrival of the Venus de Milo at the Louvre in 1821, which was the subject of a "sponsorship" planned by the authorities to celebrate its beauty and obscure the Florentine statue, despite the latter's limbs being missing. The Italians also gained Canova's Italian Venus, sculpted specifically as compensation for Florence, now housed in the Palatine Gallery of the Pitti Palace.
John Ruskin described the Venus de' Medici as ecstatic ("one of the purest and most elevated incarnations of woman ever conceived"), but Charles Martin Robertson, in A History of Greek Art (1975), downplayed its artistic value, tarnishing its fame.
- Dimensions:Height: 27.56 in (70 cm)Width: 9.06 in (23 cm)Depth: 7.88 in (20 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Roma, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1350117152932
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