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Type. White Marble. Location. Galleria Borghese, Rome. Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix ("Venus Victorious") is a semi-nude life-size reclining neo-Classical portrait sculpture by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova.
- 1805–1808
- White Marble
Pauline Bonaparte als Venus Victrix ist eine lebensgroße halbnackte Porträtskulptur von Antonio Canova. Beschreibung der Skulptur, Analyse des Werks.
Einen Skandal löste Pauline Borghese aus, als sie dem berühmten Bildhauer Canova Modell saß für dessen Marmorskulptur der » Venus Victrix « (»Venus als Siegerin«; auch genannt »Ruhende Venus«). Das Kunstwerk erregte jedoch weithin Bewunderung; es befindet sich bis heute im Museum der Villa Borghese in Rom .
The iconic masterpiece of the Galleria, the portrait sculpture of Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix was commissioned by Prince Camillo Borghese to Antonio Canova in 1804; the sum of 6,000 scudi was paid to the sculptor for the work on 15 May 1808 (Faldi 1954, p. 47; Pupillo 2019, pp. 248, 335 no. 131).
Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix (or Venus Victorious) is a semi-nude life-size neo-Classical portrait sculpture by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. It was commissioned by Pauline Bonaparte’s husband Camillo Borghese and executed in Rome from 1805 to 1808 after she married the representative of the Borghese family.
CANOVA AND THE VENUS VICTRIX. Canova is part of the soul and history of the Borghese collection, and so an exhibition focusing on the sculptor and his emblematic creation preserved there – the portrait of Pauline Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix – seems a natural choice.
In Neoclassical art: Decorum and idealization. …of Neoclassical sculptures is Canova’s Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix (1805–08). She is shown naked, lightly draped, and reclining sensuously on a couch—both a charming contemporary portrait and an idealized antique Venus.
