Three Graces | 30.11.21

One of many artefacts that we brought back from a visits to Florence, Italy #timeless. Regarded internationally as a masterpiece of neoclassical European sculpture, it depicts the three daughters of Zeus, each of whom is described as being able to bestow a particular gift on humanity. The Three Graces was carved in Rome by Antonio Canova (1757 – 1822) between 1815 and 1817 for an English collector. This group of three mythological sisters was in fact a second version of an original – one commissioned by Joséphine de Beauharnais, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.