Triumphant Venus

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Bronze sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Room 17

Inventory

PV 09282

Material and technique

Bronze, light reddish lacquer

Author

Roman or Florentine School (after Thorvaldsen)

Dating

Second half of 19th century

Dimensions

19.5 x 6 x 3.5 cm.

Origin

Barsanti Collection (1955)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

Pollak considered this statue to be a work of an unknown artist in mid-16th century Florence. The bronze comes from the Barsanti collection and was attributed by its owner to Benvenuto Cellini. Santangelo, though, recognized this as a mistake and published the bronze as an imitation executed by a Florentine forger, who copied Thorwaldsen's Triumphant Venus, making it appear as a Florentine work of the mid-16th century.

Pietro Cannata

Bibliography

L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), Bergamo 1922, no. 55, pl. XXIV; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 47; N. Penny (ed.), Catalogue of European sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the present day, Oxford 1992, I, no. 99 p. 146.