Venus de' Medici
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plaster
Measurements
395 mm (H); 126 mm (Dia)
Order this imageCollection
Castle Ward, County Down
NT 836689.3
Summary
Plaster sculpture, Venus de' Medici. Statue of Venus. First recorded in the Villa Medici in Rome in 1638. The original is now in the Uffizi, Florence.
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 88