# The Medici Venus

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BISSCHOP, Jan de](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bisschop-jan-de-rb87fc0dc1c2b84>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Etching

## Commentary

The Medici Venus is a copy after a Greek original dating from the late classical era. This print was published in &#39;Signorum Veterum Icones&#39;, a volume containing one hundred etchings after sculptures from the antiquity by Jan de Bisschop. In the preface the author explained that the statues he had chosen were &#39;the most perfect in art and the very best examples for students&#39;. The etching was executed after a drawing and therefore in reverse.

## Related artworks

- [The Huis ter Nieuburch at Rijswijck, Seen from the South-Southwest](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bisschop-jan-de-rb87fc0dc1c2b84/the-huis-ter-nieuburch-at-rijswijck-seen-from-the-south-southwest-redb059e5ddd1a9>)
- [The Huis ter Nieuburch at Rijswijck, Seen from the Southwest](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bisschop-jan-de-rb87fc0dc1c2b84/the-huis-ter-nieuburch-at-rijswijck-seen-from-the-southwest-r3f91b6ec416138>)
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## Attribution

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