[Statue of Venus Genetrix]

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[Statue of Venus Genetrix]

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Tommaso Cuccioni

Italian Photographer · 1790–1864

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A successful engraver and print dealer in Rome, Tommaso Cuccioni took up photography in 1852. He photographed paintings in the Palazzo Farnese and exhibited views of Rome at the World Exhibition in London in 1862. Upon Cuccioni's death, the business passed to his brother Gioacchino, and what amounted to the copyright went to his wife, Isabella. She carried on her husband's work by purchasing and p

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Date: 1859
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: Italian
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Photograph of a statue of Venus Genetrix, formerly in the collection of the Marchese Giampietro Campana. The statue depicts Venus or Aphrodite as clothed in a sheer, clinging garment that is lowered on her left shoulder. She holds up the end of a fabric over her right shoulder with one hand, while holding an apple in her left hand.

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