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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.
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 ...
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.
The Mazarin Venus is a Roman marble sculpture dating to the 2nd century AD. It was discovered in Rome, Italy about 1510 and is currently on view at the Getty Villa.Its name comes from the belief that the sculpture was owned by Cardinal Jules Mazarin, but this is now considered unlikely.
The Head of Arles probably decorated the ancient theatre in a similar manner to the Venus of Arles (Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques). The Head of Arles (French: Tête d'Arles), formerly known also as the Head of Livia (Tête de Livie) or the Head with the broken nose (Tête au nez cassé) is a fragment of a Roman marble statue in two parts, of which only the bust remains, which ...
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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.
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 ...