I have had this in our family for years. My grandmother is 102 yrs old and doing well and loves history had given it to me years ago. I have taken good care of it for years. I see there is a collectors group of the Hearst Castle. I would love for this to go to great people to add to their collection that will be treasured and cared well for. I myself have seen this in the Hearst Castle collection room in person, the real statue.
I've done some research and found this to be a very good replica. Looks like a marble resin combo. I have had it in my garden. Right now it is inside my home. I belive it to be very old considering it come from my sweet 102 Italian Grandmother, Isabella. Who traveled a lot and was a collector or many years of items she felt were a great investment. I had seen it in her living room for years, maybe 30 years and as she gave it to me years ago.
It is just under 25 inches tall. I have it next to an ipod to show the size next to something.
I am entertaining offers at this time. I would like to see it go to a good new home to be cherished years to come.
Please forward over to any possible buyers you think would be interested. If you have any information on auctions that would be good to enter this statue, I sure would appreciate it.
I look forward to hearing back with any comments, interest or referrals.
Best Regards,
Shell Munson
google cell # 949.427.0744
beachieshell@gmail.com
Dana Point, Ca
My 102 year old and still living Italian Grandmother gave me beautiful Venus approx 12 years ago. She had it at her for home approc 30 years. We both have been to the Hearth Castle and have seen the beautiful original in person. I have it on the market up for sales right now for the right collector. Please inquire, forward to someone who may be interested, any suggestoins on where to auction this. Thanks, Shell Munson beachieshell@gmail.com
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Friday, May 11, 2012
 | ~Information on similar Venus statues I have found in research ~ (I like the continuous round marble combo base on mine rather than this green marble)Venus Italica Italian Marble Statue7X7X26 inchesMade out of Bonded Carrara Marble.Must stay indoors.Italian Marble StatueItalians have always been known for their remarkable art and design. In addition to their original sculptures and other fine art they are also known for their detailed marble castings. Accents in the Garden now offers these beautiful Italian statues for your home. We hope you enjoy our selection as much as we do.How are they made This fine statuary is created by reconstituting real Carrara marble approximately 70% marble and 30% resin. This allows for exceptional detail that would be very difficult if not impossible to sculpt from a solid block of marble. Some sculptures are supported by a genuine black Carrara marble base to give it the elegance it deserves..Available Finishes Nature already provides a natural off white finish. We wouldn't want to cover up what is already perfect. Therefore44 these pieces are left unfinished.
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
VENUS ITALICA
Venus italica; Antonio Canova; circa 1812; 1931/6
Name/Title
Venus italica
Venus italica
About this object
Canova’s Italian Venus (Venus italica) was commissioned as a replacement for the famous Medici Venus which had been seized by Napoleon in 1802 and removed to the Louvre. (It was eventually returned.) The Medici Venus is itself a 1st century BC copy of a work by Cleomenes of Athens. Writers have described the figure created by Canova as the artist’s most subtle and complex creation. Rather than making a direct copy, he altered the figure so that it seems more immediate and human. "When I saw this divine work of Canova," wrote the poet Ugo Foscolo in 1811, "I sighed with a thousand desires, for really, if the Medici Venus is a most beautiful goddess, this is a most beautiful woman." It's popularity meant that a number of replicas were made, but how many is unclear. Rather than copying directly from the antique, Canova would form the clay model from which a plaster cast was made, which he considered to be the original work of art. His assistants then copied the form accurately in marble with the aid of a pointing compass. Only if Canova himself had been involved in the finishing and polishing, giving the marble a ‘diaphanous luminosity’, was the replica considered authentic. Made of the same Carrara marble as Michelangelo’s Pietà in St Peters, Rome, light passes through the folds on Venus’s drapery on the Auckland figure, a superb example of Canova's virtuosity.The work was restored in 2005, thanks to the generosity of Trethewey Granite and Marble.
Canova’s Italian Venus (Venus italica) was commissioned as a replacement for the famous Medici Venus which had been seized by Napoleon in 1802 and removed to the Louvre. (It was eventually returned.) The Medici Venus is itself a 1st century BC copy of a work by Cleomenes of Athens. Writers have described the figure created by Canova as the artist’s most subtle and complex creation. Rather than making a direct copy, he altered the figure so that it seems more immediate and human. "When I saw this divine work of Canova," wrote the poet Ugo Foscolo in 1811, "I sighed with a thousand desires, for really, if the Medici Venus is a most beautiful goddess, this is a most beautiful woman." It's popularity meant that a number of replicas were made, but how many is unclear. Rather than copying directly from the antique, Canova would form the clay model from which a plaster cast was made, which he considered to be the original work of art. His assistants then copied the form accurately in marble with the aid of a pointing compass. Only if Canova himself had been involved in the finishing and polishing, giving the marble a ‘diaphanous luminosity’, was the replica considered authentic. Made of the same Carrara marble as Michelangelo’s Pietà in St Peters, Rome, light passes through the folds on Venus’s drapery on the Auckland figure, a superb example of Canova's virtuosity.The work was restored in 2005, thanks to the generosity of Trethewey Granite and Marble.
Maker
Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova
Maker Role
Artist
Artist
Date Made
circa 1812
circa 1812
Medium and Materials
marble
marble
Measurements
1752 x 534 x 534mm
1752 x 534 x 534mm
Subject and Association Description
figures, goddesses, Romans, drapery, tunics
figures, goddesses, Romans, drapery, tunics
Credit Line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, gift of Mr Moss Davis, 1931
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, gift of Mr Moss Davis, 1931
Object Type
Sculpture
Sculpture
Object number
1931/6
1931/6
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