Modest Venus (Venus Pudica)
This Venus, with her legs close together and a hand covering her genital area, is a "Venus Pudica," modest or chaste Venus. Her gesture implies awareness of an unexpected gaze: the viewer's.A nearly identical statuette (in the Basel Historisches Museum, Switzerland) was owned...
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39155
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object
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normalized
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1904 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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6
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.244_VwB_DD_T11.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.244_VwB_DD_T11.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.244_VwB_DD_T11.jpg |
| imageCount | 6 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.244 |
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