Barberini Venus

The Barberini Venus, Jenkins Venus^[1] or Weddell Venus is a sculpture and copy of the Aphrodite of Cnidus, along the lines of the Venus de Medici. Its torso is a Hadrianic copy in Parian marble of the same type as the Venus de' Medici, with 18th-century restorations.

^ First coined by Johann Joachim Winckelmann in a letter, mentioned by Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500–1900 1981, p. 326, note.

[1] First coined by Johann Joachim Winckelmann in a letter, mentioned by Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500–1900 1981, p. 326, note.

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