Venus as Spiritual Love (Venus Caritas)
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 f...
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Eduard Georg Simon, Berlin (1864-1929); Arnold Seligmann, New York, perhaps through the Berlin office [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1027 |
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