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  2. Venus Genetrix (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    An example of Venus Genetrix (Capitoline Museums) The Venus Genetrix (also spelled genitrix ) [ 1 ] is a sculptural type which shows the Roman goddess Venus in her aspect of Genetrix ("foundress of the family") , as she was honoured by the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Rome, which claimed her as their ancestor.

  3. Venus figurine - Wikipedia

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    The name was first used in the mid-nineteenth century by the Marquis de Vibraye, who discovered an ivory figurine and named it La Vénus impudique or Venus Impudica ("immodest Venus"). [10] The Marquis then contrasted the ivory figurine to the Aphrodite Of Knidos, a Greco-Roman sculpture depicting Venus covering her naked body with both her ...

  4. Capitoline Venus - Wikipedia

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    The Capitoline Venus (Capitoline Museums). The Capitoline Venus is a type of statue of Venus, specifically one of several Venus Pudica (modest Venus) types (others include the Venus de' Medici type), of which several examples exist. The type ultimately derives from the Aphrodite of Cnidus. The Capitoline Venus and her variants are recognisable ...

  5. Aphrodite of Menophantos - Wikipedia

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    Aphrodite of Menophantos a Venus Pudica signed by Menophantos, first century BCE, found at San Gregorio al Celio, Rome (Museo Nazionale Romano) The Aphrodite of Menophantos is a Roman marble statue of the goddess Venus. Its design takes the form of "Venus Pudica", based on another statue, the Capitoline Venus.

  6. Crouching Venus - Wikipedia

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    The model is often related to a corrupt passage in Pliny the Elder's Natural History (xxxvi.4), enumerating sculptures in the Temple of Jupiter Stator in the Portico of Octavia, near the Roman Forum; the text has been emended to a mention of Venerem lavantem sese Daedalsas, stantem Polycharmus ("Venus washing herself, of Daedalsas, [and another], standing, of Polycharmus"), recording a ...

  7. Category:Sculptures of Venus - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Sculptures of Venus" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aphrodite Heyl;

  8. Venus Callipyge - Wikipedia

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    The Venus Callipyge, also known as the Aphrodite Kallipygos (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος) or the Callipygian Venus, all literally meaning "Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks", [a] is an Ancient Roman marble statue, thought to be a copy of an older Greek original.

  9. Venus Felix (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    The Venus Felix is a sculpture of Venus and her son Cupid which dates back to the 2nd-century AD. It was dedicated by Sallustia and Helpidus to Venus Felix. Its head resembles Faustina the Younger. It is now held at the Pius-Clementine museum of the Vatican Museums, Rome, and is displayed in the Octagon of the Hermes Hall.

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