The Callipygian Venus

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Details

  • Title

    The Callipygian Venus

  • Artist/maker

    Hans Reichle (1565 or 1570 - 1642) (sculptor)
  • Associated place

    Europe (place of creation)
  • Date

    c. 1585 - 1600
  • Material and technique

    bronze

  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    32 cm (height)
    9.8 cm of base (height)
    9.5 cm of base (length)
    8.4 cm of base (width)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Purchased, 1960.

  • Museum location

    Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance
  • Museum department

    Western Art

  • Accession no.

    WA1960.39

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Further reading

Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992)

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