Venus with sandal. Tanagra. 40cm

Description

Venus with Sandal. Reproduction of a ceramic figure of Tanagra type. Faithful recreations of original figures made in terracotta, polychrome, and aged to give the appearance of an ancient figure.

Height: 40 cm.

Venus with Sandal. This statuette represents the goddess of love, Venus, removing her sandal. The Tanagra reproductions we present are of great beauty and quality.

Greek terracottas called “Tanagra figurines” are small polychrome ceramic figures that were highly prized objects in the Greek world from the late 4th century BC to the end of the 3rd century BC.

Although their origin has been attributed to Athenian workshops, they are named after the city of Tanagra (Boeotia, Greece), as it is the place where the first figurines were found in the 19th century. Used as funerary objects, Tanagra figures have also been found in sanctuaries and inside houses as decoration.

In classical mythology, Venus, identified in Rome with the Greek goddess Aphrodite, is the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. The myth tells of Venus’s birth from the waters, emerging from the foam generated by the fall into the sea of the genitals of the sky god, Uranus, mutilated by his son Cronus-Saturn. The aquatic origin of the goddess highlights Venus’s connection with water as a symbol of fertility, regeneration, and life. Venus was depicted with symbolic attributes such as the rose and the mirror, and animals such as the dove or the swan, and represents love in all its facets, ranging from universal harmony to human desire and passion, beauty, and seduction.

Venus is attributed with loves with various lovers, both divine and human, from Vulcan, the god of blacksmiths and fire, her legitimate husband, or his brother, Mars, the god of war, to mortals like the beautiful Adonis, for whose death she descended to Hades, or the Trojan prince Anchises, by whom she bore Aeneas, considered by the Romans as her mythical ancestor.