Grotta Grande, interior view: Room Three, view of Venus ; A work by Giambologna, commissioned around 1575 by the Medicis for the Boboli Gardens in Florence. The artist has infused the formal structure of the Venus with a sense of movement and precarious balance, which gives a decidedly anticlassical air to its Michelangelesque forms. The figure is shown with an almost unnatural twisting movement that originates in the left shoulder, which is turned backwards, and terminates in her hand which is resting on some drapery, which in turn covers an amphora. Her face, which is looking down, is turned so far to her right that her chin is in line with her shoulder, which is twisted forwards with her right hand resting on her left shoulder. Her left leg, which supports part of the weight, is bent as her foot is resting on a high step, where the amphora is also standing. Her right foot stands on the "ground" and her leg is slightly bent, as if to absorb the weight of her body. The figure is not developed along a vertical line but follows a spiral. Her head is set on an unnaturally long twisted neck, her face is full and appears to be without expression or feeling and is framed by her curly hair which is described in the minute naturalistic detail typical of Mannerism. Her fairly loose plaits are held up by a finely modeled little crown.