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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. Category:Sculptures of Venus - Wikipedia

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  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. Venus (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Venus riding a quadriga of elephants, fresco from Pompeii, 1st century AD Statue of nude Venus of the Capitoline type, Roman, 2nd century AD, from Campo Iemini, housed in the British Museum. Roman and Hellenistic art produced many variations on the goddess, often based on the Praxitlean type Aphrodite of Cnidus.

  8. Townley Venus - Wikipedia

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    The Townley Venus on display in the British Museum. The Townley Venus is a 2.14 m (7 ft) high 1st or 2nd century AD Roman sculpture in Proconnesian marble of the goddess Venus, from the collection of Charles Towneley. It was bought by him from the dealer Gavin Hamilton, who excavated it at Ostia in 1775. He shipped it to England in two pieces ...

  9. Crouching Venus - Wikipedia

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    Several versions of the Crouching Venus issued from the atelier of Giambologna and his heir Antonio Susini; among examples of Susini's bronze reduction, one from the collection of Louis XIV is conserved in the Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, [13] while another, in the collection of Prince Carl Eusebius von Liechtenstein by 1658, remains in the ...

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