• The Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus is a 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) tall Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite.
  • Throughout the 18th century, the gilding of the hair of the Medici Venus (Boschung 2007, p. 173) was mentioned on several occasions by Grand Tour travellers and...
  • The Venus de' Medici is an example of this cultural admiration and the desire to preserve and emulate Greek artistic achievements.
  • The Venus de Medici was discovered in the early 17th century in a Roman villa and is now housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
  • The Venus deMedici counts among the most glorified and controversial statues from antiquity.
  • The statue is a replica of the Venus de Medici, a Hellenistic marble from 1st century BC, which was recorded during the 16th century in the Medici collection.
  • "At some time in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century the Medici had acquired a Venus and taken it to the family villa on the Pincio [in Rome].
  • Made of marble in the first century BC, it’s not known when Venus deMedici arrived in Italy – although we do know she was sent from Rome to Florence in 1677...
  • This Venus stood at the head of the bath in the Bath Room in the Grotto and remained there until presented to the museum.
  • Eskiden, Venus de Medici'nin dudakları kırmızıya boyanmış ve saçları altın varakla kaplanmıştı.
  • A bronze statue of the Venus Pudica with her head turned three-quarters to the right, her arms held across her body and her weight on her left leg...