genre: mythological sculpture / depicts: umbilicus

instance of: statue (19) | sculpture (11) | fountain (1) | sculptural group (1) | lost sculpture (1) | work with multiple executions (1)

commissioned by: Louis XIV of France (1) | Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona (1) | John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor (1)

movement: Hellenistic sculpture (5) | neoclassicism (3) | rococo (1) | classicism (1) | New Sculpture (1) | Greek late classical period (1)

named after: Aphrodite (1)

based on: Venus Pudica (6) | Cupid and Psyche (2) | Venus of Urbino (2) | Scottish mythology (1) | Capuan Venus (1) | Latona and the Lycian peasants (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Venus lying (1)

artist: Antonio Canova (3) | Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (3) | Lorenzo Bartolini (2) | anonymous (2) | Praxiteles (1) | Aristide Maillol (1) | Étienne Maurice Falconet (1) | François Girardon (1) | James Pradier (1) | John Gibson (1) | Cleomenes (1) | Edward Onslow Ford (1) | Alexandros of Antioch (1) | F. W. Pomeroy (1) | Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy (1) | Maurice Ferrary (1) | Cristoforo Stati (1) | Doidalsa (1)

material used: marble (27) | bronze (4) | onyx (3) | Carrara marble (2) | Parian marble (2) | granite (1) | ivory (1)

collection: Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre (5) | Borghese Collection (3) | Lady Lever Art Gallery (3) | Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (3) | Musée d'Orsay (2) | Tate (2) | British Museum (1) | Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille (1) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Galleria Borghese (1) | National Museum of Rome (1) | Fabre museum (1) | Badalona Museum (1) | Uffizi Gallery (1)

location: Tate Britain (2) | Capitoline Museums (2) | Uffizi (1) | Vatican Museums (1) | Collections of the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (1) | Naples National Archaeological Museum (1) | Tuileries Garden (1) | Galleria Borghese (1) | Gardens of Versailles (1) | jardin du Carrousel (1) | Latona Parterre (1) | Room 419 (1) | Room 345 (1) | Michelangelo Gallery (1) | Room 225 (1) | Room 413 (1) | Room 222 (1) | Room 344 (1)

part of: Memorial to Christopher Marlowe (1)

country of origin: France (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (1) | Salon of 1824 (1) | Caesar and the Rhône river: masterpieces of antique Arles (1)

main subject: Aphrodite (1) | Pauline Bonaparte (1) | Leda and the Swan (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1)