# Medici Venus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SOLDANI BENZI, Massimiliano]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Bronze with red-brown lacquer patina, height 158 cm ## Commentary This is a bronze copy of a marble figure, which is a second-century copy of a bronze original from the first century BC. The marble statue was rediscovered in Rome in the 1530s, and was transferred to Florence to the Medici collection. It was set up in the Tribuna of the Uffizi Gallery. ## Related artworks - [Bacchus \(detail\)]() - [Bacchus]() - [Bust of Agrippa]() - [Bust of Augustus]() - [Bust of Cicero]() - [Bust of Faustina the Younger]() - [Bust of Hadrian]() - [Bust of Marcus Aurelius as a Boy]() - [Bust of Seneca]() - [Bust of the Anima Beata]() - [Bust of the Anima Dannata]() - [Bust of Vitellius]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()