The sculpture of the day that I propose to you today is Love that waters the doves of Bienaimé.
You should know that this refined sculpture was created as the artist’s last retirement essay in Rome in 1821, sent by the Carrara Academy. The model was a great success and was purchased by the same Academy which still owns it today.
Luigi Bienaimé was born in Carrara and had studied sculpture at the city’s academy. Thanks to his skill he won a period of retirement in Rome where he had the opportunity to meet some of the most important neoclassical sculptors of the time such as Bertel Thorvaldsen.
He first became a student and then a collaborator of the Danish artist.
The collector and patron Giovanni Battista Sommariva who also helped Thorvaldsen’s students to emerge, commissioned the marble sculpture of Love Watering the Doves in Bienaimé, today kept in Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo, on Lake Como.
The subject reproduced is the young god of love while giving water to the two doves which symbolize love and purity. The idyllic scene gives a sense of tranquility, the same one that Bienaimé wanted to convey to those who observed his work.
Without a doubt, the technical quality of the sculpture’s execution is high, characterized by incredible attention to the rendering of details and the kindness of the child’s gestures.
The work perfectly embodies the typical neoclassical values of harmony and ideal beauty.
I remind you that this wonderful sculpture will be one of the protagonist works of the exhibitionOlympus on the lake‘ at Villa Carlotta starting from June 22nd. I will be at the preview and will tell you about the exhibition before it opens to the public.
For the moment, your always Michelangelo Buonarroti greets you and will meet you in the next posts and on social media.
The sculpture of the day that I propose to you today is Love watering the doves of Bienaimé.
You should know that this refined sculpture was created as the artist’s last retirement essay in Rome in 1821, sent by the Carrara Academy. The model was a great success and was purchased by the same Academy which still owns it today.
Luigi Bienaimé was born in Carrara and studied sculpture at the city’s academy. Thanks to his skill he won a period of retirement in Rome where he had the opportunity to meet some of the most important neoclassical sculptors of the time such as Bertel Thorvaldsen.
He first became a student and then a collaborator of the Danish artist.
The collector and patron Giovanni Battista Sommariva, who also helped Thorvaldsen’s pupils to emerge, commissioned the marble sculpture of Love Watering the Doves in Bienaimé, today kept in Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo, on Lake Como.
The subject reproduced is the young god of love while he gives water to the two doves who symbolize love and purity. The idyllic scene gives a sense of tranquility, the same one that Bienaimé wanted to convey to those who observed his work by him.
Without a doubt, the technical quality of the sculpture’s execution is high, characterized by incredible attention to the rendering of details and the kindness of the child’s gestures.
The work perfectly embodies the typical neoclassical values of harmony and ideal beauty.
I remind you that this wonderful sculpture will be one of the protagonist works of the exhibition ‘Olympus on the lake’ at Villa Carlotta starting from 22 June. I will be at the preview and will tell you about the exhibition before it opens to the public.
For the moment, your always Michelangelo Buonarroti greets you and will meet you in the next posts and on social media.
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