Aphrodite, goddess of love, is caught as if surprised on emerging from the sea, shielding her body with her arms. This 1st-century BCE marble copies a lost Greek bronze in the tradition of Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos. Sent from Rome to the Uffizi's Tribuna in 1677, it became a high point of the Grand Tour.
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The dolphin at her feet alludes to her birth from the sea. The long, tapering fingers come from a 17th-century restoration by Ercole Ferrata, and the signature on the base is a later addition.
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