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The Archaeological Museum of Murcia (MAM) now has a leading piece of Roman sculpture in the Region of Murcia, the 'Venus de Bullas', which today received the Minister of Education and Culture, Esperanza Moreno, after the Community get the National Archaeological Museum (MAN) in Madrid to approve a long-term loan of the piece.
The 'Venus de Bullas' comes from the Roman town of Los Cantos, located in the aforementioned municipality of Murcia, and was discovered on May 3, 1867 while agricultural work was being carried out.
The pieces found were deposited in the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid in December of that same year.
However, the piece was not exhibited in the MAN, but instead rested in its warehouses, without being able to be enjoyed by the public.
According to the counselor, "its incorporation into the Roman sculptural collection treasured by the Archaeological Museum of Murcia is a significant improvement, since it is one of the few sculptural specimens from the Region that were not yet in this territory due to various historical avatars ".
On the occasion of the temporary exhibition 'Villae.
Rural Life and Production in the Southeast of Hispania ', which was developed at the MAM between March and June 2019, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports authorized the loan of this sculptural piece for its first exhibition in the Region of Murcia .
As a result of this exhibition, the conservatives of the National Archaeological Museum were proposed the possibility that the regional museum had access to a longer-term loan, so that it could have a greater diffusion and social role in the Region.
In recent months, MAM technicians have processed the aforementioned loan before the Ministry of Culture and Sports, with the approval of the MAM and its Board of Trustees
Venus history
The sculpture of the goddess Venus would, presumably, be part of the decorative statuary program of the town of Los Cantos, within what is known as an ideal sculpture that decorated and presided over gardens, peristyls or the most important rooms in the home.
It was sculpted to be seen in an almost frontal position, upright and flexing the right leg.
The mantle, rather than tight to its body, is superimposed on the bottom, without knotting, light and loose.
In the lower part of its back, the mantle is placed with a wide horizontal fold to create folds from which the vertical and parallel falls that cover the legs from behind and open in front.
With her pure and resplendent nudity, Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, the mother of whom Julius Caesar says to descend and in which they believed and was praised by the Romans.
In this way, it goes from the official pantheon and from being represented in public spaces, to be part of it with total naturalness and a great acceptance of the private religion and the intimate character of the Roman home, converted into a family temple.
The 'Venus de Bullas' has its farthest precedents in the fourth century BC, when the Greek sculptor Praxíteles creates the naked image of the goddess.
Later, during the second century BC, Hellenism made numerous sculptural variants on it, so that the representations of the goddess remained an icon during the Roman Empire, centuries in which the created models are expanded.
This sculpture by Bullas belongs to one of the variants of the so-called Venus Landolina de Siracusa type, from the 1st century BC and also to the so-called Venus Mazarin.
In both typologies the goddess is represented standing, frontally, she is wearing a mantle and shows all her splendid nakedness.
Source: CARM
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