title pauline
Borghese creates a daring image of seduction and charm that is generalized enough to personify the goddess of love rather than exhibit the living person.

Pauline Borghese as Venus

Who- Antonio Canova
What- Marble
When- 1808
Where-Rome, Italy
Why- Sculpture has progressed to a sequence and character closer to those of a painting.
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