Medici Venus

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Geoffrey Marchal
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published on 06 March 2017

Venus Medici, Cleomenes, son of Apollodorus. Greek, Hellenistic 3th / 2nd. century BCE, Roman copy Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Inv. 224, The Royal Cast Collection (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now Remake) from Autodesk.

The Venus de’ Medici or Medici Venus is a lifesize Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite. It is a 1st-century BCE marble copy, perhaps made in Athens, of a bronze original Greek sculpture.

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