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Sculptures > 1700 > 'Medici Venus', white alabaster, Volterra, Tuscany, Italy, late eighteenth-early nineteenth century.
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| 'Medici Venus', white alabaster, Volterra, Tuscany, Italy, late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. | Description: The Medici Venus, today in the Uffizi Museum in Florence, is a 1st century B.C. marble copy of a IV-III century B.C. Greek sculpture by Praxitele.
It was probably found in Villa Adriana in Tivoli, close to Rome. It was bought by Cardinal Ferdinando de 'Medici (Florence 1549 - 1609) and showed for the first time in the Villa Medici in Rome. In 1677 it was brought to Florence.
The work portrays Venus emerging from the sea; behind her left leg a cupid on a dolphin and a swan can be found. They contribute to the stability of the group.
Our Medici Venus, in white alabaster, is an example of the reproduction on a reduced scale, of famous masterpieces produced as souvenirs for the travelers of the Grand Tour.
A Volterra Company, the Inghirami, still active at the end of the eighteenth century, published a paper, in French, listing and describing all the pieces of its production.
Most part of its pieces were reproductions of famous Greek and Roman sculptures, such as: the Farnese Hercules, the Apollo Belvedere, Leda and the Swan, and also the Venus de Medicis à Florence .
Bibliography: Mauro Cozzi, 'Alabastro', Cantini Editore, Florence, 1986, p. 14.
| | Age: Late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. | | Dimensions: 13,5 inc. high | | Price: € 1.300,00 | | Item n°: 132 GA |
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