Large Venus Medici In White Marble From The XIX Eme Century

Large sculpture in white Carrara marble representing the famous Venus Medici.
a very beautiful copy of the XIX th century probably a souvenir of the grand tour very well executed and whose details are particularly fine.
our Venus is 55 cm high, the quality of the marble is very beautiful and with an old but clean patina.
The quality of the marble plays well with the light, revealing shadows highlighting the shapes of this beautiful callipyge Venus.
she is accompanied by a dolphin at her feet straddled by two winged putti seeming to play with the latter.
the statue has been cleaned while leaving its old patina.
some missing fingers were redone in the 20th century, one is missing on the left hand.
a beautiful souvenir of the grand tour, a great classic of antiquity.
The Venus de Medici is a famous Greek marble sculpture representing the goddess Aphrodite (Venus for the Romans). It is a copy of the 1st century BC. AD of an original bronze statue, of the type of Aphrodite of Cnide[1], which would have been made by a pupil of Praxiteles. It has become a landmark in the evolution of the Western classical tradition. It is located in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, more precisely in the Uffizi gallery.
The goddess is represented in a fugitive pose, as if surprised when she emerges from the waves, as evoked by a dolphin at her feet, which could not be part of the original bronze.

height: 55cm

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