Esquiline Venus
- Title:
- Esquiline Venus
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Brucciani (London) (reproduction)
Unknown (original)
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- ca. 1st c. CE (Roman copy)
2nd or 1st c. BCE (Hellenistic original)
- Site:
- London, England (reproduction)
Esquiline Hill, Rome, Italy (discovery site, 1874) (original) - Location:
- Tjaden Hall (Room 302), Cornell University
London, England (reproduction)
Esquiline Hill, Rome, Italy (discovery site, 1874) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0820
- Accession Number:
- 760
- File Name:
- CCC_0820.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 155 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Hellenistic Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman early Imperial, after Hellenistic Neoclassical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Aphrodite (Greek deity)
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 147.5 (without plinth) x 155.5 (with plinth) x 45.5 x 37 (centimeters, height x height x length x width)
- Description:
- This is a cast of a statue of a standing, nude female known as the Esquiline Venus. The statue was uncovered in the Horti Lamiani on the Esquiline Hill in Rome in 1874 and is housed in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. The figure, nude aside from the sandals on her feet, stands with her weight on her right leg and her left leg relaxed. Her body curves towards the viewer's left as she reaches up with her missing (in the original) arms in order to bind her hair, her left arm raised higher than her right. Her head is turned to her right and tilted down. Next to the figure's right leg a garment is draped over a support consisting of a narrow, snake-wound vessel atop a square, floral basket. A second, less complete copy of this statue is housed in the Louvre. The type is a variation on the Aphrodite rising from the sea (the Aphrodite Anadyomene). The statue is probably an early Imperial copy of a work of the Neoclassical period of the second and first centuries BCE. This cast preserves restorations, most notably to the tip of the nose, that are no longer present on the original. An inscription on the plinth identifies the producer of this cast and reads "D. Brucciani, London 2637".
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. MC1141 - Bibliography:
- Ruth Christine Häuber, "Zur Ikonographie der Venus vom Esquilin," KölnJb 21 (1988), 35-64
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Rome, Capitoline Museums (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.