Venus Pudica, marble. Venus pudica, “modest Venus”, is a classic position where a naked Venus after rising from the sea raises her right hand in an attempt to hide her breast while her left hand hides her private parts. Here, the goddess of love is depicted with a dolphin alluding to her birth from the foam of the sea.

The type is derived from Aphrodite of Knidos, the name of Venus in Greek mythology, by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles. The model for this sculpture is presumably the Capitoline Venus in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, a highly famous sculpture that together with Venus from Milo defined the image of Venus for  several centuries.