Venus Main Street Annapolis Midshipmen enter Bancroft Hall after

Midshipmen enter Bancroft Hall after noon formation

signed by artist

BALTIMORE’S 50-ACRE ‘SUPERMARKET’

and one of the leading artists in the Impressionist movement of the later part of the 1800s

Venus Main Street Annapolis Midshipmen enter Bancroft Hall afterVenus on the Half Shell, cold cast bronze The Roman goddess of fertility, victory, and love, the alluring Venus has inspired artists for centuries. Here sculptor Rick Casali presents Venus standing upon a pearl within an oyster shell. With her wet hair billowing in the breeze, the pose is triumphant, her eyes and body language seductive, all heightened by the delicate treatment of her youthful flesh and greenish patina. Very rarely does one see such