Focus on Veiled Rebecca and analyze the Style.
The Veiled Rebecca is an example of the neoclassical naturalist style, popular during the 19th century.  The Veiled Lady, or Rebecca shows how Antonio Canova's and other Neoclassical sculptors' work had an influence on Benzoni as well as how well-versed he was in earlier eighteenth-century sculptural style. As Boström noted, veiled figures first appeared in post-classical art in the eighteenth century. Canova produced various female figures with translucent attire and drapes in the nineteenth century, including Hebe. Later Milanese sculptor Raffaelle Monti created Seated Veiled Woman  displayed at London's Great Exhibition of 1851 and then Veiled Woman  in 1854 to continued to explore this veiled female form. Benzoni was acquainted with Monti and was present in London in 1851.Veiled women were a popular sculptural motif among Benzoni and his peers in 19th-century Italy for a number of reasons. The first was that these works highlighted the artistry of the sculptor since achieving the illusion that stone is fabric clinging to a body requires a high level of skill. Secondly, a veiled woman had become an allegory for Italian unification.
Raffaelle Monti Italian unification Hebe Italy Italian sculptor London Antonio Canova neoclassical