威尼斯 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	威尼斯
品名（英）	Venezia
入馆年号	1999年，1999.18
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Larkin Goldsmith Mead【1835 至 1910】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1865 - 公元 1866
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尺寸	27 x 15 1/4 x 11 1/8 英寸 (68.6 x 38.7 x 28.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	出生于佛蒙特州的Larkin Goldsmith Mead是一位杰出的外籍雕塑家，在佛罗伦萨工作了半个多世纪。19世纪60年代中期，米德经常前往威尼斯，他的妹夫威廉·迪恩·豪厄尔在那里担任美国领事，米德在那里会见了他未来的妻子玛丽埃塔·迪·本韦努蒂。威尼斯是他最著名的雕塑（有十多个定位的例子），描绘了一位有魅力的年轻女子，可能是雕塑家在恋爱和结婚时的妻子。作为威尼斯的化身，她戴着一顶珠子头饰和一个中央扇贝壳，上面放着一艘小贡多拉。这尊雕像来自一件纹理丰富的海泡沫紧身胸衣——尤其是在这件大理石上雕刻得很精细——这不仅是半身像的终点，也是威尼斯水环境的参考。希拉姆·鲍尔斯（Hiram Powers）对威尼斯、美国和加利福尼亚等地理位置的理想化描绘，也在博物馆的藏品中（根据编号66.243、72.3），对19世纪中期的美国人特别有吸引力。这尊寓言式的半身像可以被视为一幅婚礼肖像，因为米德不仅向他的新婚妻子致敬，还向威尼斯致敬，威尼斯传统上被称为"海上新娘"。
介绍（英）	Vermont-born Larkin Goldsmith Mead was a prominent expatriate sculptor who worked in Florence for more than half a century. During the mid-1860s he made frequent trips to Venice, where his brother-in-law William Dean Howells served as the American consul and where Mead met his future wife, Marietta di Benvenuti. Venezia, his best-known sculpture (of which there are more than ten located examples), depicts an attractive young woman, probably the sculptor's wife at the time of their courtship and marriage. As a personification of Venice, she wears a tiara of beads and a central scallop shell, upon which is set a small gondola. The figure emerges from a textured sea-foam bodice—particularly finely carved in this marble—that serves not only as the bust's termination but also as a reference to Venice's aqueous environment. Idealized representations of such geographic locales as Venezia, as well as America and California by Hiram Powers, also in the Museum's collection (acc. nos. 66.243, 72.3), were particularly appealing to mid-nineteenth-century Americans. This allegorical bust may be viewed as a nuptial portrait, since Mead not only honors his new wife but also offers a tribute to Venice, traditionally known as the Bride of the Sea.