Aphrodite - Gallery

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  • The Venus Kallipygos. Aphrodite Kallipygos, "Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks"), is a type of nude female statue of the Hellenistic era. It depicts a partially draped woman raising her light peplos to uncover her hips and buttocks, and looking back and down over her shoulder, perhaps to evaluate them

  • The Ludovisi Cnidian Aphrodite, Roman marble copy (torso and thighs) with restored head, arms, legs and drapery support. The Aphrodite of Cnidus was one of the most famous works of the Attic sculptor Praxiteles (4th century BC).

  • Fountain of Aphrodite in Mexico City.

  • An engraving of the Venus de' Medici. The goddess is depicted in a fugitive, momentary pose, as if surprised in the act of emerging from the sea, to which the dolphin at her feet alludes. The dolphin would not have been a necessary support for the bronze original. Venus' modest pose is similar to pose held by the Venus in The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli, and many different statues from antiquity.

  • Aphrodite of Menophantos a Venus Pudica signed by Menophantos, first century BC, found at San Gregorio al Celio, Rome (Museo Nazionale Romano), The Aphrodite of Menophantos is a Roman marble statue of Venus of the Capitoline Venus type.

  • Aphrodite Heyl, terracotta statuette of very high quality, probably from Myrina, 2nd century BC

  • The Venus Anadyomene, from Pompeii, believed to be a copy of a lost work by Apelles.

  • The Ludovisi Throne (460 BC?) is believed to be a classical Greek bas-relief, although it has also been alleged to be a 19th century forgery

  • The Birth of Venus (1912), by Odilon Redon.

  • Aphrodite riding a swan: Attic white-ground red-figured kylix, ca. 460, found at Kameiros (Rhodes).

  • The 'Breasts of Aphrodite' twin hills in Mykonos

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