19th century Venus with Alabaster Apple, cm alt. 18 The small sculpture depicts Venus, the goddess of beauty and love. The languid and sinuous pose but at the same time innocent and chaste refers to more famous examples such as the Venus with apple by Bertel Thorvalsen, neoclassical sculptor of the nineteenth century. The goddess silently observes the fruit she holds in her right hand, while with the left she holds the cloth used to cover her nakedness. The fruit is usually depicted in the hands of the goddess of beauty in memory of the dispute over the golden apple disputed between Juno, Minerva and Venus herself and then won by the latter, considered the most beautiful by the p