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The right arm of the goddess and the upper part of the head, as well as the legs and the left arm of Eros, had to be reattached as they were broken off. Eros's right arm is missing. Pan's right leg and horns also had to be reattached. Three fingers of Aphrodite's left hand and the middle finger of her right hand were supplemented with plaster.
The Aphrodite of Knidos (or Cnidus) was an Ancient Greek sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite created by Praxiteles of Athens around the 4th century BC. It was one of the first life-sized representations of the nude female form in Greek history, displaying an alternative idea to male heroic nudity .
With her right hand, the goddess attempts to cover her left breast. The head is twisted to the left. Thus the statue belongs to the Venus pudica type, which derives from a statue of the famous sculptor Praxiteles, the Aphrodite of Cnidus. [1] The statue is a Roman copy of a Greek original.
Aphrodite is wearing a chiton and standing on a rock, next to a tree trunk (the marble sculpture's support), her head slightly inclined downward. Her hair is tied on the top of the head, bound up in an elaborate topknot. [2] She is relaxed as she stands on her left leg, with her right leg relaxed and softly bent.
Aphrodite of Rhodes was an accidental find, unearthed in 1923 in the garden of the Governor's villa in Rhodes, when the island was still under Italian control following Italy's annexation of the Dodecanese islands from the Ottoman Empire in 1912.
The Aphrodite Rhithymnia (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Ῥιθυμνία, romanized: Aphrodítē Rhithumnía, lit. 'Aphrodite of Rhithymna'), also known as Aphrodite of Lappa ( Greek : Αφροδίτη της Λάππας ), is a Roman statue of the first century AD found at the site of ancient Lappa , in modern-day Argyroupoli , western ...
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In the Aphrodite of Menophantos, the statue features an unclothed female with her left hand pulling a cloth over her genitalia whilst her right covers her breasts. The goddess stands on her left leg while her right one is slightly inclined. She turns slightly to her left; her tilted head and nonchalant expression suggest that she is lost in ...