Venus Italica

Antonio Canova1807/1808

Museum Gipsoteca Antonio Canova
Possagno, Italy

This work was executed to replace Medici’s Venus in the Uffizi in Florence which it was thought would be easy prey for the French. Today the marble is found in the Palatine Gallery in Florence.

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Title: Venus Italica
Creator: Antonio Canova
Date: 1811
Date Created: 1807/1808
Medium: plaster

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