Venus with the Apple Bronze Statue rython serving as a legatus legionis

serving as a legatus legionis in Hispania

Naturally aged under the sea

Base diameter: 6 cm / 2

The head added by Carlo Albacini follows the Townley model

Venus with the Apple Bronze Statue rython serving as a legatus legionisVenus with the Apple Bronze Statue, reproduction after the original by renown noeclassical sculptore Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770 1844). Venus was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor. The Romans adapted the myths and iconography of her Greek counterpart Aphrodite for Roman art and Latin literature. In the later classical tradition of the West,