Pietro Bazzanti (Italian, 1825-1895): A carved white marble bust of the Venus de'Medici after the antique image 1

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Pietro Bazzanti (Italian, 1825-1895): A carved white marble bust of the Venus de'Medici
after the antique

Fine Decorative Arts, 1200-1900

17 November 2021, 14:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

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Pietro Bazzanti (Italian, 1825-1895): A carved white marble bust of the Venus de'Medici

after the antique
looking to sinister and signed signed and inscribed to the rear shoulders P. Bazzanti, Florence, on turned verde antico marble circular socle, 49cm high

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The relatively recent discovery of the sculptor Willem van Tetrode's bronze reduction of the Venus de'Medici when it was reunited with other sculptures from the lost cabinet at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Frick Collection in New York in 2003 confirmed that this renown antique marble depicting the Goddess of love was known as early as the mid-16th century.

Originally recorded as being located in the Villa Medici in Rome by 1638 which was the year the bust acquired its iconic title, it had by 1677 been subsequently sent to Florence where it was was installed in the Tribuna of the Uffizi where it remains today (although it was briefly replaced by Antonio Canova's Venus Italica when the bust travelled to France between 1803 and 1815 after Napoleon's occupation of Italy in 1799.

Thought to be a Graeco-Roman adaptation of the fabled Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles, the Venus de'Medici is perhaps one of the most celebrated and perhaps controversial sculptures from antiquity. Prized by Lord Byron and criticised by the Duke of Shrewsbury it is one the most famous of several ancient marble sculptures depicting the goddess Venus in an alluring 'pudica' pose. The statue's renown beauty inspired countless copies throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries including plaster casts, full-size marbles, reductions in bronze, and bust versions such as the offered lot.

Related Literature
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, 'The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900', New Haven/London, 1982, pp. 325-328

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Pietro Bazzanti (Italian, 1825-1895): A carved white marble bust of the Venus de'Medici after the antique

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