Venus Medici
Venus Medici
Published 2017-03-31T10:47:39+00:00
Venus Medici, Cleomenes, son of Apollodorus. Greek, Hellenistic 3th / 2nd. century BC, Roman copy Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi Inv. 224, The Royal Cast Collection (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now Remake) from Autodesk.
The Venus de’ Medici or Medici Venus is a lifesize Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite. It is a 1st-century BC marble copy, perhaps made in Athens, of a bronze original Greek sculpture, following the type of the Aphrodite of Cnidos, which would have been made by a sculptor in the immediate Praxitelean tradition, perhaps at the end of the century. It has become one of the navigation points by which the progress of the Western classical tradition is traced, the references to it outline the changes of taste and the process of classical scholarship. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. (Wikipedia)
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Date published | 31/03/2017 |
Complexity | Medium |
Title | Venus Medici |
Date | 2nd. century BC |
Dimension | 1.60 m x 0.6 m x 0.6 m |
Place | The Royal Cast Collection |