Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Capitoline Venus
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Capitoline Venus
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Image View:
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Overall three-quarter view from right front
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Creator:
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after Praxiteles (Ancient Greek sculptor, active ca. 375-340 BCE)
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Location:
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repository: Musei Capitolini (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. MC0409
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Location Note:
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Piazza del Campidoglio, 1; Palazzo Nuovo, Cabinet of Venus
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GPS:
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+41.893056+12.4825
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Date:
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Roman copy ca. 96-192 CE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Ancient Greek; Roman (ancient)
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Style Period:
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Classical; Greco-Roman
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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sculpture
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Material:
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Parian marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurements:
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193 cm (height)
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Description:
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The Capitoline Venus is a type of Venus Pudica (modest Venus); (others include the Venus de' Medici type), of which several examples exist. The type ultimately derives from the Aphrodite of Cnidus (Knidos) of 369-364 BCE. The Capitoline variant uses both hands to shield herself after her bath. The original of this type is thought to be a lost 3rd- or 2nd-century BCE Hellenistic variation on Praxiteles' work from Asia Minor. The Capitoline Venus is slightly over lifesize; it is an Antonine period copy. It was found on the Viminal Hill during the pontificate of Clement X (1670-1676) in the gardens belonging to the Stazi near San Vitale. Pope Benedict XIV purchased it from the Stazi family in 1752 and gave it to the Capitoline Museums, where it is housed in a niche of its own called "the cabinet of Venus" on the ground floor of the Palazzo Nuovo. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-R-CM-CV-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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