Bronze of Venus. National Archaeological Museum of Madrid. 12x6x24cm

Description

Reproduction made in lost wax cast bronze. Finished with ageing patinas.

Measurements: Width: 12 cm. Depth: 6 cm. Height: 24 cm.

Reproduction of a statue of Venus from the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid (M.A.N.).

Venus -Aphrodite is the goddess of love in Greco-Roman mythology. She was born from the foam of the sea of Cyprus, fertilised by the genitals of Uranus, thrown there by his son Cronus (Saturn) after he had castrated him. Aphrodite is the “Mistress of the smile”, the “braider of deceptions”.

During the trial of Paris, the goddesses Hera and Athena were powerless against her seductive beauty. She was the protector of Troy and of Prince Paris, and later of the Trojan hero Aeneas, son of Anchises and symbolic founder of Rome. She is also fecundity in plant and animal nature. The dove is his bird. His son is Eros – the Latin Cupid – capricious archer with two arrows: one for happy loves, the other for unhappy ones.