Barberini Venus - statue CensusID: 10008991

Barberini Venus - statue
CensusID: 10008991
Alias
Jenkins Venus
Aphrodite Barberini
Venus of Capitoline Type
Venus Pudica
Location Qatar, Collection of Sheikh Saud Al-Thani
Description
Class
Type
Material
Present Condition
Original
Number
Descriptive Details
Dimensions
sculpture
statue
marble: parian
restored
no
01
figure
female
standing
nude
right hand covering breast
left hand covering groin
armlets, 2
Aphrodite
Venus
type: Captoline Venus
Venus Pudica
pillar: decorated
Erotes
head: modern
163 cm (including plinth)
155 cm (without plinth)
History
Date of Creation
150, around
Style
Flavian
Preservation Event(s) Date
Action
Person responsible
Note(s)
1763-1765
restored
Thomas Jenkins
restored:
head
right arm
left lower arm
left elbow
lower part of right lower leg
toes of the left foot
two heads of the Erotes
base around antique plinth
Provenance
Provenance Event(s) Date
Location
ante 1763
Roma, Palazzo Barberini
Date
1763
Person
Gavin Hamilton
responsible
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Note(s)
purchased
Date
1763-1765
Person
Thomas Jenkins
responsible
Note(s)
purchased
Date
1765
Person
William Weddell
responsible
Note(s)
purchased
Date
1765-2002
Location Newby Hall
Person
William Weddell
responsible
Relationships
Corpus Winckelmann Document(s):
> Winckelmann 1764 (Nachrichten) > p. 038
> Winckelmann 1742-1768 (Briefe) > vol. III (1764-1768)
> Winckelmann 1742-1768 (Briefe) > vol. III (1764-1768)
> Winckelmann 1742-1768 (Briefe) > vol. III (1764-1768)
> Winckelmann 1742-1768 (Briefe) > vol. III (1764-1768)
> no. 661
> no. 664
> no. 710
> no. 711
> p. 042
> p. 044
> p. 103f.
> p. 106
Original:
untraced: Greek Original of Capitoline Venus Type - statue
Parallel Replica(s) known to Renaissance:
Roma, Musei Capitolini: Capitoline Venus - statue
Firenze, Uffizi: Venus Medici - statue
Qatar, Collection of Sheikh Saud Al-Thani : Barberini Venus - statue
Roma, Villa Albani: Venus of Capua Type with Head of Capitoline Venus Type - statue
Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: Venus of Capitoline Type with Portrait Head - statue
untraced: Venus of Capitoline Type with Portrait Head - statue
Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: Venus of Capitoline Type - statue
Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: Venus of Capitoline Type - statue
Firenze, Uffizi: Venus of Capitoline Type - statue
Roma, Museo Nazionale Romano: Venus of Capitoline Type - statue
References
Bibliography:
> Frédéric de Clarac: Musée de sculpture antique et moderne I-VI (continué par Maury Alfred), Paris
1826-1853 > no. 1394
> Michaelis, Adolf: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, translated from the German by C.A.M. Fennell,
Cambridge 1882 > pp. 527-529, no. 20
> Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny: Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900,
New Haven/London 1981 > pp. 69, 326
> Seymour Howard: Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, New York 1982 > pp. 67f., 255, no. NEW 8
> Hansgeorg Oehler: Foto und Skulptur. Römische Antiken in englischen Schlössern, Cologne 1980 >
p. 76, no. 73
> Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Briefe, Entwürfe und Rezensionen zu den Herculanischen Schriften,
Herculanische Schriften III, ed. by Adolf H. Borbein, Max Kunze, Mainz 2001(Johann Joachim
Winckelmann, Schriften und Nachlaß II,2) > pp. 134-135
> Adolf H. Borbein, Max Kunze: Ville e palazzi di Roma, ed. by Adolf H. Borbein, Mainz 2003 (Johann
Joachim Winckelmann: Schriften und Nachlaß 5,1) > pp. 88, 309f.
Comment
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Brigitte Kuhn
Thomas Fröhlich
Volker Heenes
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