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| Keywords: Italian - Modest Venus (Venus Pudica) - Walters 54244 - View D.jpg This Venus with her legs close together and a hand covering her genital area is a Venus Pudica modest or chaste Venus Her gesture implies awareness of an unexpected gaze the viewer's A nearly identical statuette in the Basel Historisches Museum Switzerland was owned by the collector Basilius Amerbach 1533-91 who believed the statuette to be ancient Both statuettes have silver-inlaid eyes a feature copied from antique bronzes as are Venus's corkscrew curls The pose is derived from a much-studied ancient torso in a Roman collection It is possible that these statuettes were created as antiques for which there was great demand ca 1500 Renaissance bronze with dark brown lacquer patina silver cm 26 7 accession number 54 244 39155 Henry Walters Baltimore 1904 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1904 place of origin Padua Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
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