A composition stone figure of the Medici Venus

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The original Medici Venus (in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence) is a lifesize Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. It is a first century BC marble copy of a bronze original Greek sculpture.
The Medici Venus is one of the most-copied antiquities. Louis XIV had no less than five copies. In small reductions it figured among the most familiar of the antiquities represented in collectors' cabinets.