A late 19th/early 20th century Italian patinated bronze figure of Venus de Medici after the antique probably NaplesA late 19th/early 20th century Italian patinated bronze figure of Venus de Medici after the antiqueprobably Naples the nude goddess standing beside a dolphin with two putti, on circular base with typical dark greenblack patination, 78cm high The Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus is a monumental Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite dating from the 1st-century BC, although it is most likely a copy, perhaps made in Athens, of an original bronze Greek sculpture, following the type of the Aphrodite of Knidos. The sculpture was originally recorded in 1638 at the Medici Villa, Rome and is now in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy.