Chatsworth House Sculpture Gallery

We're back to Chatsworth House today.We visited this state house during our honeymoon and I've blogged a lot about our visit there, the water features and maze, the magnificent wall and ceiling paintings and the paintings of duke and duchess of Devonshire for the past centuries, and what I like most is the Royal collections. And today I'm gonna share to you another valuable and historic work of art collections of the house; The Sculpture Gallery.

The sculpture collection in the house, garden and park spans over 4000 years. It was the 6th Duke William Spencer Cavendish who built the gallery and started the collections from the age of 28 until his death, aged 68.

This is the vistel virgin sculpture, it was featured from the film "Pride and Prejudice" by the actress Keira Knightley. What amazes me is that how they carved the veil that looks so real.

The Duke positioned busts of himself and Canova above copies of two lions (which you can slightly see at the nest photo) Canova had made for the tomb of Pope Clement XIII (1536-1605) at St. Peters in Rome.

The Duke visited Italy and met some of the best artists of his time. He became great friends with the famous sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and this gallery could be seen as a shrine to the artist.

To make the marble sculpture, Canova would have begun by drawing sketches, then making a small clay model to perfect the composition before creating a full size versions in plaster.

This chandelier though caught my attention cos of the very artistic look.

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The Home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire

Last time, I posted about Chatsworth House famous water cascade and some features in the garden. I haven't shared to you most of the photos we took there, so now I'll show you another water feature there and more of the outside views.

For those of  you who haven't seen my first post of Chatsworth, this is how it looks like. Haven't taken the whole of the house though. cos it's too long and wide and it'll be too far when I take all of it.

Ok to give you good idea of how big the whole house is, this is the little model of Chatsworth House front view, with me of course. hehe

And here's the back view with my prince-charming! (toink!) hehe

 And now presenting the Emperor's Fountain!

Closer and better view this one with the lovely lady here..haha (wink)

And this with the silly man as if swallowing the water from the fountain!hehe

And be ready to get lost in the Maze. We had a struggle finding our way in and out of this maze but then obvioulsy we managed!

And after the tiring tour, we took a break here for a cup of capuccino and a flapjack which was very yummy!

Wondering what's inside this massive and beautiful house of Duchess and Duke of Devonshire?Oh well, visit me again next week in My World Tuesday entry and discover more beauties of nature and the world in Watery Wednesday.

Good Day everyone!