03 — ARTWORK
Venus
- MEDIUM
- Bronze, height 26 cm
- TYPE
- Mythological
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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The serpentine pose; sloping shoulders; small, disklike breasts; taut arms, legs, and abdomen; and sweet countenance of the woman, who tilts her head while covering her sex with her left hand, are features found in late fifteenth-century Italian bronzes after the antiquethe classical age of Greece and Rome began with the Greek migrations of the 2nd millennium BC, and ended in the West in 476 AD with the deposition of the Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus (c. 475 AD); in the East it ended in 529 AD when the Platonic Academy was closed by Justinian (482 - 565 AD).. The Venus attributed to Riccio represents this type, including the twin corkscrew curls falling on her shoulders and the decorative headband typical of northern Italian 'all'antica' images of ideal beauty.
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@online{wga-ref6fca2091f4fd,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Venus by RICCIO, Andrea},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-07},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/riccio-andrea-r2e0174fef6d06b/venus-ref6fca2091f4fd},
urldate = {2026-09-07},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-07. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
