Venus
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 16
- Inventory
- PV 09322
- Material and technique
- Bronze, natural yellow-brown patina
- Author
- Northern Italian School (Venice?)
- Dating
- Late 16th-early 17th century
- Dimensions
- 11 x 3.5 x 3 cm.
- Origin
- Barsanti Collection (1934)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
The small statue was designed to sit on top of an ink-pot or a bell. It depicts a standing Venus covering her head and body with a small towel while she rests her left foot on the head of a dolphin. The pedestal is fused with the statue. Some variants of the small bronze have been indentified in other collections. Pollak believed it to be a Venetian work from around 1570, while Santangelo thought it to be from the same period but produced in Verona by Giuseppe de Levis, since its style is reminiscent of a small Hercules in the Castello Sforzesco Museum in Milan.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), catalogue of the collection, Bergamo 1922, p. 134, no. 95; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 50.
