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The Veiled Virgin is a Carrara marble statue carved in Rome by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza (1818–1875) [2] depicting the bust of a veiled Virgin Mary. [3] The exact date of the statue's completion is unknown, but it was probably in the early 1850s. [4] The veil gives the appearance of being translucent, but is carved of marble.
Strazza's The Veiled Virgin. Giovanni Strazza (1818–1875) was an Italian sculptor who was born in Milan, Italy. He studied at Brera Academy in Milan and then worked in Rome between 1840 and 1858. [1] He returned to Milan where he taught at his alma mater from 1860 to 1875, passing the "Sculpture Chair" to Giosuè Argenti. [2]
"I would love to see the Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada," he says. ... There's one more interesting fact about the sculpture's pupils. Yes, they might be ...
In the mid-19th century, there was a resurgence in popularity of the veiled woman motif after the example of Corradini partially due to the image of a veiled woman becoming an allegory for Italian unification. [16] Artists including Giovanni Strazza, Raffaelle Monti, Pietro Rossi, and Giovanni Maria Benzoni contributed to the
Veiled Christ (Italian: Cristo velato) is a carved marble sculpture completed in 1753 by the Neapolitan artist Giuseppe Sanmartino. It is formed from a single block of white marble, and was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro , a prince of Sansevero, as the centerpiece of the Cappella Sansevero , in Naples , Italy.
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A front quarter view of the sculpture. The Veiled Vestal (Italian: La vestale velata) is an 1847 sculpture by Raffaelle Monti. It was commissioned by William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire during an 1846 trip to Naples. It is a representation of a Vestal Virgin, the priestesses of the Ancient Roman goddess Vesta.
The one located in Detroit Institute of Arts, is the smaller version. [ 7 ] The statue was described in a 19th-century English art journal: "Benzoni, the fashionable Roman sculptor, whose studio has been visited by a number of crowned heads, exhibits in his suite of showrooms, several replicas in different sizes of his Diana, his veiled Rebecca ...