historyfilia:Venus “callipigia”Museo Archeologico Nazionale di NapoliThe statue portrays the goddess
historyfilia:Venus “callipigia”Museo Archeologico Nazionale di NapoliThe statue portrays the goddess looking back to admire the perfect line of her body. The Greek name “kallipygos” literally means “Venus of beautiful buttocks” and refers to the erroneous identification of the type with a statue created in the second century BC and exhibited in Syracuse. In fact the iconography was already known in the mid-fourth century BC, while the original of this statue has to be dated back to around two centuries later. After its discovery, the statue was restored by C. Albacini and in particular he restored the head, the shoulders, the left arm holding the hem of the peplos, the right hand and the right calf.The statue was found in the Domus Aurea. It was acquired by the Farnese family, who placed it in the Villa Farnesina, then it was inherited by Charles III of Bourbon.It was moved to the court of Naples together with the other Farnese collections and finally it was exhibited in the Museum. [Source] -- source link