Venus Kalyppigos (Venus aux belles fesses)
Venus Kalyppigos (Venus aux belles fesses)
3D
Published 2019-09-27T13:23:27+00:00
For the Pillar Hall at the Royal Palace, Gustav III ordered an ancient replica, Venus aux belles fesses.
The love goddess’ head, though, resembled Ulla von Höpken, Duke Fredrik Adolf’s former mistress. Her uncle, councillor von Fersen, tried but failed to get Sergel to lessen the likeness: the king wanted to have a go at his brother Fredrik Adolf for taking the wrong side in the family row over the crown prince’s legitimacy.
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 Credit : CC BY-SA 4.0 / Nationalmuseum
| Date published | 27/09/2019 |
| Schwierigkeitsgrad | Medium |
| Title | Venus Kalyppigos (Venus aux belles fesses) |
| Date | ca. 1780 |
| Dimension | 150 x 49 x 30.5 cm |
| Accession | NMSk 360 |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Medium | Carrara Marble |
| Credit | Transferred 1865 from the Kongl. Museum |
| Record | http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=26740&viewType=detailView |
| Artist | Johan Tobias Sergel |
| Place | Nationalmuseum |
