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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. „Pauline Bonaparte als Venus Victrix“ (auch bekannt als „Victorious Venus“) ist eine halbnackte, lebensgroße Porträtskulptur im neoklassizistischen Stil des italienischen Meisters Antonio Canova.
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.
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 .
Portrayed by Antonio Canova in the guise Venus victorious in the Judgement of Paris, Pauline Borghese Bonaparte (1780-1825) is depicted bare-breasted as she reclines on two cushions and a soft mattress, with her right hand touching her head and her left holding the apple.
Antonio Canova, detail Paolina Borghese as Venus Victorious, 1804-08, white marble, 160 x 192 cm (Galleria Borghese, Rome) Originally, Canova was to depict her as Diana, the chaste goddess of the moon and the hunt, a role that more would have require her to have been clothed. Paolina insisted on Venus, though.
…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. Read More.