Venus, Louis - Ernest Barrias (1841 - 1905)
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Louis-Ernest Barrias (Paris, 1841 - there, 1905) Venus with the mirror on a rock Marble, h. cm 59, 5 Signed “E Barrias” The renewal of classical beauty was exploited during the course of the nineteenth century as a virtuous formalism. The silent reference to an antiquing aura, typical of which sculpture or pictorial work had been modeled according to the vestiges of antiquity, would in fact have added a positive connotation to the artistic artefact, exemplified by the ordered symmetry of the composition. The well-known classical regard for the weighted measurement of bodily harmony also recurs in the present sculpture, which looks to the modern age through