# Venus Italica [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CANOVA, Antonio]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Canova's Italian Venus \(Venus Italica\) was commissioned as a replacement for the famous Medici Venus which had been seized by Napoleon in 1802 and removed to the Louvre. \(It was eventually returned.\) The Medici Venus is itself a 1st century BC copy of a work by Cleomenes of Athens. The statue is exhibited in the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/cortona/2/2venere1.html'\)" href="/html/c/cortona/2/2venere1.html">Hall of Venus</a> of the Palazzo Pitti, decorated by Pietro da Cortona. ## Related artworks - [Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte]() - [Cupid and Psyche \(detail\)]() - [Cupid and Psyche \(detail\)]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Daedalus and Icarus]() - [Daedalus and Icarus]() - [Eurydice]() - [Feed the Hungry]() - [Funerary Monument of Francesco Pesaro \(model\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()