The Colonna Venus is a Roman marble copy of the lost Aphrodite of Cnidus sculpture by Praxiteles, conserved in the Museo Pio-Clementino as a part of the Vatican Museums' collections. It is now the best-known and perhaps most faithful Roman copy of Praxiteles's original.
The Colonna Venus is one of four marble Venuses presented in 1783 to Pope Pius VI by Filippo Giuseppe Colonna;[1] this, the best of them, was published in Ennio Quirino Visconti's catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino,[2] where it was identified for the first time as a copy of the Cnidian Venus.[citation needed] Immediately it eclipsed the somewhat flaccid variant of the same model that, as the Belvedere Venus, had long been in the Vatican collections.[a] During the 19th and early 20th centuries, a prudish tin drape was modestly wrapped around the legs of the Colonna statue[b] – this was removed in 1932,[4] when the statue was removed to the Gabinetto delle Maschere where it can be seen today.
When Christian Blinkenberg wrote the first modern monograph of the Cnidian Aphrodite in 1933,[5] he found the Colonna Aphrodite and the Belvedere Aphrodite to most accurately reflect the original, mediated through a Hellenistic copy.[6]
^L1.Don Filippo III Giuseppe Colonna, principe di Paliano and hereditary Gran Connestabile of Naples[permanent dead link]; see Haskell and Penny 1981:331, as "the Conestabile Colonna".
^Visconti, Ennio Quirino. "Plate XI.". Il Museo Pio-Clementino. Vol. 1.
^Haskell & Penny (1981), cat. no. 90, pp 330-31.
^Haskell & Penny (1981), p. 331.
^Blinkenberg, Christian (1933). Knidia; Beiträge zur Kenntnis der praxitelischen Aphrodite (in German). Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard.; his view is supported by Pfrommer, M. (1985). "Zur Colonna Venus: ein späthellenistische Redaktion der Knidischen Aphrodite". Istanbuler Mitteilungen. 35: 173–80.
^Mitchell Havelock, Christine (2010) [1995]. The Aphrodite of Knidos and her successors : a historical review of the female nude in Greek art. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 26. ISBN 9780472032778.
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