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Fonderia artistica Sommer, inizi XX secolo
Venere di Capua, from Collection del Museo Nazionale
bronze sculpture
h 63 cm
signed Fonderia artistica Sommer Napoli on the base
Aphrodite of Capua, a 19th-century bronze sculpture with a brown patina by Giorgio Sommer, depicting Venus holding a shield, based on a Roman marble original preserved in the Mann collections and originating from the excavations of the Campanian amphitheatre of Santa Maria Capua Vetere.