Description
High quality decorative figure, made of reconstituted marble (marble powder agglutinated with chronolite) and finely polished. Patinated with natural earths, which give it the finish of a sculpture embellished by the passage of time.
Measurements: Height 38 cm. Base: 14 cm. diameter
Approx. weight: 12 kg.
This sculpture can be exposed to inclement weather, outdoors. Ideal for decoration or as a gift.
Venus of the bath of Falconet. This work was made by Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716 – 1791), one of the main French rococo sculptors, influenced by the baroque school of which he can be considered a master, Falconet appears, in certain aspects, as a neoclassical sculptor.
Venus -Aphrodite is the goddess of love. 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.
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