Bandinelli gave a “bellissima Venere”, in his own words, to Charles V prior to 1536, which is recorded in the collection of Charles’s sister, Mary of Hungary. It was executed in Rome from a cast of a classical torso of the Belvedere Venus in the Uffizi, to which the sculptor added a head of his own design. Exhibited as a figure of Eve in the gardens at Aranjuez in the late sixteenth century, the arms were not added for another two centuries. The sculpture was formerly thought to be by Bartolomeo Ammanati (1511-1592).