Description
High quality reproduction made of reconstituted marble (marble dust and cronolite). Aging patina with earth and natural waxes.
Metallic base. The sculpture can be extracted from the base if desired.
Ideal for decoration or gift.
Total measurements: 17 x 12 x 36 cm. Sculpture dimensions without base: 17 x 12 x 32 cm.
There are numerous sculptures that throughout history have represented the Goddess Venus (Aphrodite), goddess of love and beauty, crouched or inclined in an attitude of taking a bath. Greece, Rome or Neoclassicism created numerous sculptures, many of them inspired by the ancient Aphrodite of Rhodes.
The sculpture we reproduce is inspired by the “Vénus Accroupie” that belonged to Louis XIV, currently in the Louvre.
Venus – Aphrodite is the goddess of love. Born from the foam of the sea of Cyprus fertilised by the genitals of Uranus, cast 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.
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