Venus Rising from the Waves

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When Sergel portrays the love goddess Venus emerging from the sea he makes no attempt to cover her. Instead it is the gust of wind the guides her movement. Sergel based the work on the ancient Hellenistic Venus de’ Medici, which he had seen in Florence in 1773. This marble sculpture was commissioned by Duke Fredrik Adolf during his visit to Rome four years later, but Sergel only finished it in Stockholm in 1785. He retouched it 20 years later.    These 3D scans have been produced with an Artec Eva with the ambition to produce a digital representation as close to the original as possible. However, the presented scans are not to be regarded as duplicates as due to inaccessible areas etc deviations from the original might occur Photography - CC BY-SA 4.0 - Per-Åke Persson / Nationalmuseum