Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Amymone / Single Figure
Venus / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Statues / Rome, Villa Borghese (Venus or the nymph Amymone, or other Sea Goddess)
Venus / Single figure / With attributes / Dolphin / Venus Marina / Standing with a dolphin
Venus / Single figure / With attributes / Dolphin / Venus or the nymph Amymone or other Sea Goddess

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Flora and Fauna / Animals / Fish, shellfish, and other marine creatures / Dolphin

Further details

According to Bober and Rubinstein a copy of a late Hellenistic work that in turn copies a composition from the late 4th century BC

Artist or creator

Graeco-Roman

Date

138 - 161

Location

Rome, Villa Borghese (inv. 738)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Phyllis Bober and Ruth Rubinstein, Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture, London 2010, no. 63; Giovanni Becatti, Ninfe e Divinità Marine, Rome 1971

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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