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Shell Venus or Chaste Venus

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Sales price 2784 €
Description

Sku: 26.04

Dimensions: 50 X 40 x 160 H cm

Weight: 65 kg

Material: Reconstituted marble

Author: Praxiteles

References: M. A. Elvira Barba. Escultura clásica. Guía Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid 1999 p. 30. 

Price: 2784 €

Description: The original white marble sculpture was made around 135 AC. and is kept in the Prado Museum in Madrid. It comes from the roman ruins of Sagunto and was restored during the Renaissance by B. Rovira (the inscription of his name appears next to the dte of 1533), who sculpted a shell above the pubis and the inscription "Work of Praxiteles).

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