Venus Anadyomene
by DANTI, Vincenzo, Bronze, height 98 cm
Venus Anadyomene (“Venus Rising From the Sea”) is one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in Pliny’s Natural History. Danti’s statuette is from the ‘studiolo’ of Francesco I de’ Medici. It was produced after Danti’s successful completion of the monumental Beheading group on the Florence Baptistery.