Throwback Thursday: LEGO® Brick Medici Venus

This week we’re going back to early last year for the fourth and most recent model we’ve created for the Nicholson Museum in Sydney- a lifesize LEGO brick version of the iconic Medici Venus statue!

The statue’s design has been reproduced by many different artists and sculptures over the centuries, but the Nicholson Museum chose the specific Medici version pictured above for us to base our version on.

Apart from getting the curves and expression of the human form right the statue has a host of sea creatures and cherubs  around its feet which also had to be sculpted from bricks. Being entirely white made building the complex shapes easier thanks to the much larger palette of parts available in white, but it was still tricky!

As with all our larger tall models that end up on public display we also had to include a steel support internally to ensure the model would transport safely and not injure anyone. This model ended up inspiring us to build the much larger Statue of David which we included in our Wonders of the World exhibition. Here’s the Brickman build team with the statue for scale:

Watch Ryan talk about building model here: