Art Institute of Chicago
Fragment of a Statue of Venus
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- Date
- 1st-2nd century
- Medium
- Marble
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 40164
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This fragmentary statue depicts Venus (the Greek Aphrodite), goddess of love, sexuality, and fertility, wearing a sheer garment that clings to her curves and highlights the source of her power. The form is likely based on an earlier Greek bronze statue of Aphrodite created by the sculptor Kallimachos in the fifth century BCE. Similar depictions were popular throughout the Roman imperial period, when Venus was viewed as the divine mother of the imperial family and the Roman people as a whole.
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- Credit line
- Museum Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- Edward McK. Holly, London and New York, acquired in Pozzuoli, Italy; given to the Charity Organization Society, New York, by 1894 [New York Times 2/14/1894, copy in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1904.
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- Object type
- AAT300301253
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