The gorgeous marble Venus of the Grotticella, also known as the Bobolina Venus, is the work of the sculptor and bronze-worker Giambologna (1529-1608), one of the greatest mannierist artists of the second half of the 16th century. The sculpture was commissioned around 1575 by the Medici for the Boboli Gardens, in Florence.
The artist manages to infuse into the Venus's forms a sense of movement and precarious balance, proposed in an anti-classical sense. The figure is characterized by an almost unnatural torsion that begins from the left shoulder, rotated toward the rear, and ends with the left hand that holds a piece of drapery, which in turn covers an amphora. The right shoulder, flush with the face which is rotated to the right and lowered, is turned forward and the right hand is placed on the left shoulder.The Venus is observarble from any angle, thanks precisely to that accentuated torsion of the body.
Her hair is wavy and curly, elaborately portrayed according to a standard of naturalistic imitation typical of Mannerism, and is held in place by a sort of finely-modelled little crown.
Mythological and historical subjects become a pretext for the search for forms requiring the highest quality and skills in technical execution, as demonstrated by the work of Giambologna.
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