Shugborough Park in John Preston Neale and Thomas Moule, Views of the Seats, Mansions, Castles etc. Ancient demand for Crouching Venus statues is attested to by the number of copies made not only as monumental marbles but also as small statuettes in rock crystal, like this one also owned by the Getty, and in terracotta. This type of statue, a pose popular in ancient art for centuries, is known as the Crouching Venus. Her head is raised and turned sideways, as if surprised her arms are now lost, but they once were raised across her chest. This Venus came to the Getty after two centuries of peregrinations: from a dramatic restoration in Rome to English aristocratic estates and, very briefly, a sandbar in Jamaica, the Venus has called a lot of locations home.

Paul Getty as collector, discussed recently on The Iris, is a just-larger-than-life-size statue of the goddess Venus, shown kneeling down to bathe with her son, Cupid, clinging to her side. One of the first artworks that visitors see in a new gallery at the Getty Villa devoted to J. “I am very glad to have this wonderful statue” -J. An over-life-size statue of the goddess Venus is the centerpiece of J.

Modern combat versus crouching