Bust of Venus

3D Model

This bust is the roman copy of a IVth century BC hellenistic original work. Originally, the statue of the goddess probably decorated the ancient theatre’s scene wall. A recent hypothesis from specialists restores it in Venus said « Genitrix » (from Latin ‘mother’), both protective and founding of « gens Iulia » ‘s dynasty, to which Julius Caesar belonged.

Marble
End of the 1st c. BC. - beginning of the 1st c.
Height 58 ; width 46 ; depth 34 cm

Arles, ancient theatre, 1823
FAN.1992.405