Antonio Canova via luisa_1709
Tag: sculpture
Neoclassical French bust of Antinous, dated to the 18th century. Marble. Source: Sotheby’s.
“Medea”, 1868, William Wetmore Story.
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“The Three Graces”, Antonio Canova.
Keira Knightley photographed by Yelena Yemchuk for Vogue Italia April 2017
this looks like a lesbian begging her love to come back after Medusa turned her to stone for not returning her feelings
Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno in Genoa, Italy
“I tried to make a photoset of my aesthetic and all my pictures were of marble sculptures and flowers” moodboard
Vincenzo Vela, Italy Grateful to France, 1861-2. 1st version, red background: marble, 2nd version: plaster.
“[The work] was executed on a private commission from a group of patriotic
milanese ladies in Milan who wished to present it to Empress Eugénie of
France, the consort of Napoleon III. During the Second Empire, France
was very supportive of Italy’s efforts to win independence from the
Austrian empire, a fact to which the suggestive and ambiguous depiction
of the relationship between the two States alludes. Furthermore, the
partial nudity of ‘Italy’ provoked a heated debate about the peninsula’s
desired but unachieved emancipation from foreign powers.” – Museo Velafrance: hey baby, wanna play emancipation from foreign powers with me?
italy: *swoons*
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