Botticelli’s Venus in White Marble Table Sculpture Various Sizes

Venus is depicted full-length, her right hand resting on her breast with a demure gesture, her left hand on her pubis holding a lock of her very long hair moved by the wind. The head slightly reclined, the facial expression gentle and mild. Balanced, she is placed on the edge of a shell that leads her to the landing on the island of Cyprus.

Motion and stillness coexist in the same figure: the statuesque body and standing pose are counterpointed by the swaying hair, the delicate shell that moves pushed by the wind and waves becomes a solid support under her feet.

“Beauty will save the world.”

Fëdor Dostoevskij

Venus for the Romans, Aphrodite for the Greeks, is one of the best known goddesses, a symbol of universal Love and Beauty. The Goddess has always dominated the collective imagination as an icon of absolute, eternal Beauty. It is Among the most complex and enduring symbols since ancient times, still able to seduce, changing shape and physiognomy. The Goddess is the most fascinating entity that has always accompanied us, she is the most representative symbol of lovers of the Beautiful, lovers of Art.

Her birth, lost between myth and history, the foam of the sea and the languages of art, has never stopped renewing the evolution of symbolism related to fertility and spirituality, purity, grace, beauty, sensuality and love, making her an icon as well as an emblem of feminist struggles.

The combination and contrast of materials, in harmony with the sinuosity of the form, give the sculpture a unique and refined character. Through the display of the Venus, an allure of beauty and sensuality that is never vulgar or obvious can be conveyed to the setting.

MATERIALS.

Marble is a solid and aesthetically beautiful fine material. In the contemporary view of Ethics to Sustainability, marble production is able to realize a unique work, capable of conveying a truly unique and natural visual and tactile emotion.