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On a day like any other, a Florentine exhibition space born in 1860, a photographer captures marble surfaces making them soft as clouds, smooth as velvet.

The Boboli Venus, “Bobolina”  also known as “Venus della Grotticella” contains the idea of ​​a treasure kept in the most beautiful garden in Florence. The theme of the divinity coming out of the bath, very widespread in the late Renaissance, also captured the sculptor Giambologna who, at the end of the 1500s, sculpted this magnificent little creature, inviting people to walk around the slender figure to enjoy its grace in its three dimensions exposed to the public with modesty.

Walking through the rooms with high volutes, the photographer lingers on many faces, busts, masculine classic torsos and Canovian dancers who came out of the Frilli Gallery's workshop.

The replica has always fascinated because it gives the sensation of living daily next to what came from the genius, it makes you think of owning time and makes you feel privileged in being able to keep it in private rooms away from the gaze of the many visitors crowded in front of the originals.

At the same time, through an artfully created photo, the marble replica becomes a masterpiece of a masterpiece, with its naturally smooth and white surface that allows itself to be caressed by the gray contrasts which deliberately made pure and soft, a shadow that slides over Gianni Giovannini, creates a true and own pictorial version of the replicas signed by Galleria Frilli.