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| Keywords: Antico - Venus as Spiritual Love (Venus Caritas) - Walters 541027.jpg The artist's preoccupation with antiquity earned him his nickname His patrons the Gonzaga family of Mantua sent him to Rome to study ancient sculpture so that he would be able to seek out antiquities for purchase discern forgeries and produce small versions in bronze of famous statues The last are usually creative interpretations which he called his antiquities This fine Venus may be loosely based on the same unrestored torso of a Roman copy after a Greek original as Venus Pudica Typical of Antico's style are the highly finished surface dark patina touches of gilding in the hair and silver inlay for the eyes a detail found in ancient bronzes This Venus represents Spiritual Love expressed through her modest pose her lamp of celestial fire and her crown of Virtue Around 1520 Antico was creating pieces for his major patron in Mantua the marchioness Isabella d'Este whose refined tastes are here exemplified between 1520 1523 bronze with traces of gilt and silver inlay cm 45 6 accession number 54 1027 30236 Arnold Seligmann New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore 1931 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1931 The Allure of Bronze The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995 I tesori del collezionismo dei Gonzaga Museo di Palazzo Ducale Mantova 2008-2009 Antico The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes National Gallery of Art Washington; The Frick Collection New York 2011-2012 place of origin Mantua Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
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