100.DB Venus Apple Thorvaldsen (OBJECT)

Title

100.DB Venus Apple Thorvaldsen (OBJECT)

Description

This is a post-antique marble statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen in The Royal Collection of Paintings and Sculptures at the Statens Museum for Kunst, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The statue depicts Venus (Aphrodite), the Roman goddess of love, holding an apple. This apple represents the prize in the myth The Judgment of Paris. The contrapposto figure looks down at the apple in her right hand. The left hand holds a cloth and rests upon a tree trunk.

Date

1809

Artist

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Medium

sculpture
statue

Material

stone
marble

Dimensions

109.6 x 48 x 41 cm

Chronology

Neo-Classical

Current Location

Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Museum No.

KMS6004

AW3D Contributors

This entry was composed by Rachel Moore (IUPUI).
  • Dr. Elizabeth Thill, advisor
  • Cheyenne Eversole, curator
  • Ryan Knapp, technological advisor

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