Venus Verticordia, c.1838 - 39
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Description: Illustrated essay from the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.
The human figure concealed under a frock coat and trousers is not a fit subject for sculpture. In the figure of Venus, the Roman goddess of love, the sculptor John Gibson found his ideal subject. This work, with its softly modelled face and elegant curves, depicts a paragon of female beauty, a match for the classical statues that the sculptor so ardently admired. And yet Gibson strove to suggest a beauty beyond the physical. In an account of his life, published in 1870, he is quoted as saying,
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