La Venere di Mondragone

On January 25 , 1911 Mr. Leopoldo Schiappa was run earthworks for the planting of a vineyard in the area dell'Incaldana . During the work , the settler Antonio William, and his son John , clashed with a pick a body big and hard : amazed , saw the emergence of two pieces of land from a mutilated statue of the arms and body. Immediately the news spread in the village and the discovery was reported to the Archaeological Museum of Naples, where the statue was conducted on April 10 , 1911 , by Professor Vittorio Spinazzola .

These , by bringing together the two pieces found , rebuilt the famous statue , which he called the "Venus Sinuessana " , attributing to Praxiteles , greek great sculptor of the fourth century BC This masterpiece of Greek sculpture adorned once one of the Roman villas of Sinuessa . It is assumed that the villa belonged to Marcus Tullius Cicero [citation needed] . It represents a woman out of the bathroom , on the beach, in the act of drying , holding the sheet on the femurs . It should be noted that the statue was bought for only 500 pounds at the time, while it was at least five hundred thousand .