Venus de Medici - Las Vegas, NV
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N 36° 06.940 W 115° 10.461
11S E 664309 N 3998321
Venus is the Roman goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility and prosperity.
Waymark Code: WMJY2T
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 01/14/2014
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This lifesized sculpture is located in an alcove fountain at the main entrance to Caesar's Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It depicts the goddess naked but for a laurel wreath in her hair. She stands casually with one hand near her breast and the other in front of her groin. Two cherubs are at her feet. A plague attributes the work to Cleomenes but...
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"The Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus is a lifesize Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite. It is a 1st-century BC marble copy, perhaps made in Athens, of a bronze original Greek sculpture, following the type of the Aphrodite of Cnidos, which would have been made by a sculptor in the immediate Praxitelean tradition, perhaps at the end of the century. It has become one of the navigation points by which the progress of the Western classical tradition is traced, the references to it an outline of the changes of taste and the process of classical scholarship. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy."
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