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Title
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Juno and Victory
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Description
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Juno is modeled after the Farnese Juno, which is housed at the Naples National Museum. The Carrara marble statue portrays a woman dressed in a classical robe, with her arm held up and holding an object. The woman is wearing a crown or headdress. Victory is a copy of Vincenzo Consani's Victory at the Pitti Gallery in Florence. It depicts a seated woman in Carrara marble, covered in a cloak from the waist down. She gazes down and writes on the shield she holds. Her hair is put up and there is a sheathed sword at her side. The inscription on the base says "The Victory of Science Over Ignorance. Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." The inscription gives the name many know the statue by "The Victory of Science."
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Coordinates
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4344 Shaw, St. Louis, MO 63110
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Location
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Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri
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Note
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Juno use to sit at the center of Henry Shaw's garden. After Shaw's death the garden became the Missouri Botanical Garden, where the statue was moved in 1996 closer to Shaw's old home in a part of the garden called the Victorian Garden. Victory sits in a mausoleum with a copper roof that was originally meant to be Shaw's resting place. That mausoleum is known as the "Temple of Victory." Consani's Victory is special because the Roman Goddess is depicted without wings, unlike in most other versions of the Goddess.
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Abstract
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The statues of Juno and Victory at the Missouri Botanical Garden were carved from Carrara marble by Carlo Nicoli in 1886. Juno is depicted as a classical Roman woman in robes, while Victory is a replica of Cincenzo Consani's Victory located in Florence. Henry Shaw had the statues moved to St. Louis, and following his passing, Juno was repositioned nearer to his former residence.
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Creator
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Carlo Nicoli|191
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Date
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1886/09/01
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Medium
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Carrara Marble
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Date Modified
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1996
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Subject
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Juno|Victory
