Venus de' Medici
Sculpture by Cleomenes the Athenian / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus is a 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) tall 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 Knidos,[1] 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.[2] It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Venus de' Medici | |
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Year | 1st century BCE |
Type | Marble |
Location | Uffizi Gallery, Florence |