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Antonio Canova's famous 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. The Medici Venus (see similar, the Capitoline Venus) is itself a 1st Century BC copy of a work by Cleomenes of Athens. The Venus Italica has been considered one of Canova's most subtle and complex creations, refusing to copy the stolen venus and to give it his signature Neoclassical style. "When I saw this divine work of Canova
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