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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 .
Aphrodite is the central figure in Sandro Botticelli's painting Primavera, which has been described as "one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the world", [288] and "one of the most popular paintings in Western art". [289] The story of Aphrodite's birth from the foam was a popular subject matter for painters during ...
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.
Juno Borrowing the Belt of Venus is a 1781 history painting by the French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. [1] It depicts a scene from Greek and Roman Mythology.Taken from a passage in Homer's Iliad it shows the Goddess Juno borrowing the Girdle of Aphrodite from Venus in her efforts to seduce Jupiter.
The Aphrodite of Fréjus at the Louvre. A 1.64 m-high Roman statue, dating from the end of the 1st century BC to the start of the 1st century AD, in Parian marble, was discovered at Fréjus (Forum Julii) in 1650. It is considered as the best Roman copy of the lost Greek work.
A surviving example on a red-figure pyxis from the late 5th century BC shows Hedylogos, alongside his brother Pothos, drawing the chariot of Aphrodite. [1] Another representation, dating to around 370 BC, depicts her alongside Acamas. [3] To the Romans he was known by his Latinized name Hedylogus.
The Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus is a 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) tall Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite.It is a 1st-century BC marble copy, perhaps made in Athens, of a bronze original Greek sculpture, following the type of the Aphrodite of Knidos, [1] which would have been made by a sculptor in the immediate Praxitelean tradition, perhaps at the end of the ...
Aphrodite's winged little son Eros, the god of romantic love, is similarly trying to assist his mother fight off her assaulter by grasping Pan's right horn and pushing him away. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Pan leans on a tree trunk (the statue's marble support) covered with animal's skin, and has left his hunting stick at the foot of the trunk. [ 1 ]