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First rendered by Italian sculptor Clemente Susini around 1780, the so-called Medici Venus was the first of her kind: a life-size, anatomically correct, fully dissectible woman whose divine ...
I could not quite believe that I was not to find the Venus de Medici; and still, as I passed from one room to another, my breath rose and fell a little, with the half-hope, halffear that she might ...
A pair of ancient marble sculptures, “Venus de’ Medici” and “Dancing Faun,” have been major attractions at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence since 1688, and that’s not likely to change ...
The statue is known as the Venus de' Medici. A figure of Cupid is riding on a dolphin at her feet. Cupid and the dolphin are both tiny by comparison, to give the impression of a giant goddess stepping ...
Botticelli might have been inspired Venus de’ Medici, a marble sculpture of the goddess dating to 1st-century B.C.E.
A pair of ancient marble sculptures, “Venus de’ Medici” and “Dancing Faun,” have been major attractions at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence since 1688, and that’s not likely to change ...
Artist Keith Edmier etches Cindy Crawford nude, inspired by Michael Thompson and the ancient Venus de’ Medici sculpture, at New York's Petzel Gallery.
A white marble replica of the ancient Greek statue Venus de’ Medici overlooks the pool at the Ca’ d’Zan, the home of John and Mable Ringling that is located on the grounds of The Ringling ...
The Venus de Medici has been restored by a local reclamation firm A 200-year-old statue badly damaged by vandals at a country park in Cornwall has been repaired. The statue of Venus - or Venus de ...