Juno
By Carlo Nicoli
Category: Sculpture
About
This statue of Juno is a copy of the Farnese Juno in the Naples National Museum. The original dates from the fifth century B.C. In Shaw’s day the statue stood in a formal garden in front of the greenhouse located where the Gladney Rose Garden is now. During much of the 20th century, Juno was the central focus of the Italian garden behind the Palm House, which has been replaced by the Climatron. In 1996 the four-ton statue was moved to the Victorian garden next to the Tower Grove House.
For more information visit the Missouri Botanical Gardens website.
Dimensions: 84″ x 32″ x 22″
Year Completed: 1887
Material: Marble
Owner: Missouri Botanical Garden
About the artist:
Carlo Nicoli
1843-1915
Carlo Nicoli was associated with an American, Ross C. Adams, who wrote to Henry Shaw in 1883 soliciting the commission for the Columbus statue in Tower Grove Park. That project went to Ferdinand von Miller II of Munich, but from Adams and Nicoli, Shaw ordered Juno and Victory and busts of Gounod and Verdi for the Music Pavilion in Tower Grove Park. Nicoli is regarded as one of the most successful artists working in Florence during the mid-to late 19th century. He studied under famed sculptor Giovanni Dupre in Florence, and exhibited pieces in Britain, Australia, South Africa, Mexico, and Argentina. In 1863, Nicoli established the Nicoli Sculpture Studios in Carrara, Italy, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site and continues to produce important classical reproductions and commissions to this day.
