100.DB.11 Venus Apple Thorvaldsen

This is a 3D model of a post-antique marble statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen in The Royal Collection of Paintings and Sculptures at the Statens Museum for Kunst, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The statue depicts Venus (Aphrodite), the Roman goddess of love, holding an apple. This apple represents the prize in the myth [The Judgment of Paris](www.theoi.com/Olympios/JudgementParis.html). The contrapposto figure looks down at the apple in her right hand. The left hand holds a cloth and rests upon a tree trun…

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