1592999442000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-31226 1753812153061 1656601589000 1753812119276 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-31226 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31226 23361dbc-0285-3a3b-a965-e6ac59ade56b 6 person reference agent-139324 adlib-agent-139324 412c46d0-b7b7-3980-8ca2-6c1babc8909a Venus reference term-98228 adlib-term-98228 3d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5c sculpture reference term-1111 adlib-term-1111 46c949dd-f376-3538-878f-397baee5be09 mythology Applied Arts White marble, carved in the round. Reclining, partially draped figure of Venus. M.6-1974 1 accession number M.6-1974 31226 priref 31226 Art UK external ID CAM_CCF_M_6_1974 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31226 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31226 inscribed P. MARCHESI, F/MILANO 1829 signature reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Purchased with the Cunliffe, Perceval, and Webb Funds, aided by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam, the Pilgrim Trust and a Grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum. reference agent-156753 adlib-agent-156753 b4f097b1-a3d3-3d9d-b258-b9b3463dd102 Gallery Heim 1974 1974 1974 bought This Venus Pudica, and the Contrite Madalene, M.7-1974, were installed at the Villa Lainate before 1840 when they were mentioned and illustrated by line drawings in a guide to the Villa. Their dates 1829 and 1832 are given in a footnote. 1829 CE 1829 dated 1829 sculptor reference agent-85009 adlib-agent-85009 18bbd04d-b36b-33df-abfb-9e12fd569e90 Marchesi, Pompeo Marchesi was the leading Neoclassical sculptor in Milan during the first half of the nineteenth century, whose output was influenced by the work of Canova, under whom he had studied between 1804 and 1809. He established a large and prolific studio, and was Professor of Sculpture at Milan’s fine art academy between 1838 and 1852. This partially draped Venus reclining on luxurious mattresses and pillows draws its inspiration from the great Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova’s famous marble portrait of Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix, carved in 1808. Marchesi’s homage was commissioned by Duke Pompeo Litta Visconti Arese (1785–1835) and by 1840, it had been installed in one of the garden grottoes of his spectacular residence in Lainate (near Milan), the Villa Borromeo Visconti Litta, together with Marchesi’s Penitent Magdalene (M.7-1974). The composition proved popular and Marchesi produced variants such as that dated 1838, which shows Venus with Cupid (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna); and that dated 1855, which shows Venus entirely naked and lying on a net (Galleria d’arte moderna, Milan). reference term-106853 adlib-term-106853 25492eb4-1164-35eb-8dce-3601486f3415 19th Century reference term-106511 adlib-term-106511 0677a51e-a816-3f2c-bd69-4dde898eab76 literal Italy Italy country Milan reference term-37963 adlib-term-37963 929f6c25-5677-3624-90d4-f6d882da98ec white marble Height cm 109 Width cm 157.5 reference media-195548 adlib-media-195548 4e33e28d-d7f2-32d2-87b0-3765aec62bc8 jpeg aa/aa32/m_6_1974_1_201401_mfj22_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 840 width pixels 1024 1616253431100 1 image jpeg aa/aa32/mid_m_6_1974_1_201401_mfj22_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 410 width pixels 500 1616253431100 1 image jpeg aa/aa32/m_6_1974_1_201401_mfj22_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 840 width pixels 1024 1616253431100 1 image jpeg aa/aa32/preview_m_6_1974_1_201401_mfj22_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 205 width pixels 250 1616253431100 1 image 0 media image reference term-107454 adlib-term-107454 6ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20 figure history note Carved for Duca Pompeo Litta Visconti Arese, and situated in one of the grottos of the Nymphaeum of the Villa Lainate, near Milan reputedly from a palazzo in Rome; acquired in England by Gallery Heim, London and exhibited in their Autumn Exhibition, 1972, London, Paintings and Sculpture 1770-1830. 1 reference object-31227 adlib-object-31227 9b20e0fe-4229-3a7a-a391-4757e5e2f40f

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figure reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference number literal name Sculpture UK Sculpture UK Publ. Mentioned p. 20, and see note 2, where the date of the statue is given. Illustrated by a line drawing T5. See object's file for a xerox of the title page, p. 20 and illustration. The date of the Venus, is given in footnote 2 on p. 20. 20 reference publication-3646 adlib-publication-3646 27ead9bc-225a-3305-8422-bf9f8ec6ae77 Villa Lainate, Guide Publ. Photograph in the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, showing the statue in a private house before it came to England. See the section of the article entitled 'La Venere 'Sorpresa' o 'Pudica' (Tipo B), pp. 702, 705-6. pp. 702, 5-6 reference publication-200000834 adlib-publication-200000834 6a3868ca-20a6-3362-91a4-8260165654f6 Il marmo e la parola. Precisazioni su Pompeo Marchesi reference publication-2477 adlib-publication-2477 1628ed3e-7720-3bfc-ba5c-21e38b790365 La Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano activity reference term-109521 adlib-term-109521 fd9eae47-f573-3b80-91f7-b1c8821185f3 reclining literal reclining reclining

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