Venus of the "Medici" type
75 - 100.Galería Jónica Planta Principal Norte
This Venus is of the same type as the one in the Medici collection (Florence, Uffizi, c. 100BC), which allows us to know that she originally covered her pubis and breasts with her arms. With her small head turned towards her left shoulder, Venus’s hair was gathered up with a bun at the neck. Her left thigh shows the trace of a dolphin’s tail, indicating that this torso represented the divine apparition of the goddess rising from the waves.
The loss of Venus’s head and in particular her arms, which modestly covered her breasts and pubic zone, distorts our actual perception of the figure.