PJBayens has added a photo to the pool:
Antonio Canova’s Venus (Venus Italica), commissioned as a replacement for the Medici Venus which had been seized by Napoleon in 1802. Ugo Foscolo (1811): “When I saw this divine work of Canova, I sighed with a thousand desires, for really, if the Medici Venus is a most beautiful goddess, this is a most beautiful woman.” Foscolo was right, for the Greeks saw in Venus the Ideal Beauty, and created sculptures of her with ideal mathematical, not perceived, proportions. Canova, however, sought the beauty of aesthetic sensual desire. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
©2012 Patrick J Bayens
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