Cleveland Museum of Art

Venus after the Bath

Date

c. 1600

Medium

bronze

Culture

Italy, early 17th century

Department

European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The statuette’s scale speaks to its likely place in private, intimate settings. The serpentine composition would have encouraged close examination from multiple angles. Compare the complexity of her pose to the relatively static Venus with a Burning Urn (1948.171). Giambologna intended his bronze statuettes to be held and touched, to fully appreciate their smooth, elegant forms.

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