Antique patinated bronze after the " Venus de Medici "

Description

Antique patinated bronze model of the "Venus de Medici"
A very handsome antique bronze model of the " Venus de Medici" * with a deep dark brown patina. The depth of the patina indicates this particular model is an older model which I believe to date from the middle of the 19th century, and belongs to the "grand tour" category. It is a beautiful model, in excellent age appropriate patina and condition. No deep scratches or dents.
The
Venus de' Medici
or
Medici Venus
is a
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
,
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.
It is housed in the
Uffizi gallery, Florence
, Italy.
The origin of the Venus is undocumented: "its reputation seems to have grown up gradually",
Francis Haskell
and
Nicholas Penny
remarked. It was published in the collection at the
Villa Medici, Rome, in 1638, given three plates in the anthology of the most noble sculptures that the ravages of time had spared in Rome compiled by
Francois perrier,
Segmenta nobilia signorum et statuarum que temporis dentem invidium evase
, Rome 1638.
The Venus was already known by 1559, it now appears, for a bronze reduction of it was among the series of the most famous Roman sculptures that were featured on a cabinet completed in that year; it was commissioned by
Niccolo Orsini
, conte di Pitigliano, as a gift to
Philipp II of Spain
: the sculptures were by the Dutch sculptor trained in
Benvenutto Cellini's atelier, Willem van Tetrode, called
Guglielmo
Fiammingo
in Italy.
Size
:13 3/8" H x 4" in diameter
34 cm H x 10 cm in diameter
Condition
: Excellent age-appropriate condition. Please look at the detail photos.
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