A young woman lifts her light peplos to bare her hips and looks back over her shoulder, perhaps to admire them. This Roman marble copies a lost Greek bronze of about 300 BCE; whether she is Venus or a mortal is uncertain. Her famous backward glance is the work of restorers, since the head was missing when the statue was found.
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Her head, arms and one leg are replacements by Carlo Albacini, who restored the statue in the 1780s before it went to Naples with the Farnese collection.
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