At the time she was an extremely social creature both popular and.
Marble canova paolina.
The statue is a plaster cast used to make a marble statue of paolina bonaparte.
Canova paolina borghese as venus victorius.
Paolina was 25 when she decided to pose for canova.
The statue of paolina borghese is a marble sculpture made by antonio canova between 1805 and 1808.
White marble 160 x 192 cm galleria borghese rome.
The museo antonio canova shared details of the incident on.
The sculpture displayed in the northern italy museum is a plaster cast for the marble version paolina borghese as venus victrix.
1 november 1757 13 october 1822 was an italian neoclassical sculptor famous for his marble sculptures often regarded as the greatest of the neoclassical artists his sculpture was inspired by the baroque and the classical revival and has been characterised as having avoided the melodramatics of the former and the cold.
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David the emperor napoleon in his study at the tuileries.
Canova was a revered sculptor who lived from 1757 1822 and was famous for his marble statues.
It portrays young paolina bonaparte sister of napoleon and wife of roman prince camillo borghese who commissioned the work.
The work damaged was the original plaster cast model made in 1804 for the marble sculpture of paolina bonaparte housed at the galleria borghese in rome.
Vignon church of la madeleine.
Whose naked model was paolina borghese sister of.
Soufflot the panthéon paris.
That piece named pauline bonaparte as venus victrix and sculpted from 1805 to 1808 is on display at.
Widowed very young napoleon s sister paolina had in the wake of her brother s meteoric career made one of the noblest catches it was possible to make at the time.
Museo gypsotheca antonio canova.
Not intended for public view was the full length figure of paolina borghese one of canova s most masterly sculptures.
Canova s majestic early 1800s marble statue version of paolina borghese bonaparte as venus victrix is on display in rome s galleria borghese.