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Creator Name: Unknown
Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Roman
Creator Role: Sculptor
Creator Name-CRT: Artist unknown
Title: Venus
View: front
Creation Start Date: 300
Creation End Date: 399
Creation Date: 4th Century
Object Type: Sculpture
Classification Term: Silver
Materials and Techniques: silver, gilding
Dimensions: H.5-3/4 in.
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 69.84
Credit Line: The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context:

Venus is the Roman goddess identified with the Greek Aphrodite, goddess of love and fertility. The nude Venus may assume several of poses, standing or reclining. Originally, this mutilated statuette was a full standing figure in the pose of "Venus Pudica" (Venus of Modesty) with one arm slightly flexed, the hand covering the pubic area, while the other is bent so that it lightly covers the breasts. This pose, invented by a Greek sculptor in the early 3rd. century B.C., was frequently reproduced in Roman sculpture, and was still reflected centuries later in Italian Renaissance paintings, such as Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" and Masaccio's "Eve" in the Brancacci Chapel.


AMICA ID: MIA_.69.84
Component Measured: height only
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2001
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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