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During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, statues depicting Aphrodite proliferated; many of these statues were modeled at least to some extent on Praxiteles's Aphrodite of Knidos. Some statues show Aphrodite crouching naked; others show her wringing water out of her hair as she rises from the sea.
The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain, but the modern consensus places it in the 2nd century BC, perhaps between 160 and 110 BC.
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.
May 23, 2024 · Venus de Milo, ancient statue commonly thought to represent Aphrodite, now in Paris at the Louvre. It was carved from marble by Alexandros about 150 BCE and was found in pieces on the Aegean island of Melos in 1820.
Title: Marble statue of Aphrodite. Period: Imperial. Date: 1st or 2nd century CE. Culture: Roman. Medium: Marble. Dimensions: H. with plinth 62 1/2 in. (158.8 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture. Credit Line: Purchase, 1952. Accession Number: 52.11.5
Jan 13, 2022 · The Aphrodite sculpture is among the first female Greek and female Roman statues to be created in life-size. The Aphrodite body type was a unique representation of classical female sculpture in the era of the portrayal of heroic male nudes.
The over life-size statue of Aphrodite—caught unawares emerging from her bath—is based on the first large-scale, freestanding sculpture of a female deity in the nude: the Aphrodite of Knidos, carved by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles in the 4th century BCE.
Title: Marble statue of Aphrodite. Period: Hellenistic. Date: 2nd century BCE. Culture: Greek. Medium: marble. Dimensions: H. 32", W. 9 1/2", D. 6 1/2. Classification: Stone Sculpture. Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick M. Stafford, on the occasion of the reinstallation of the Greek and Roman galleries, 2006. Accession Number: 2006.509
May 27, 2024 · Praxiteles’ statue of Aphrodite, carved for the Cnidians, was the first full-scale female nude, and it later became the model for Hellenistic masterpieces such as the Venus de Milo (2nd century BCE).
Aphrodite or Amphitrite? When she first arrived at the Louvre, it was suggested that her missing arms should be restored, but the idea was eventually abandoned for fear of changing the nature of the work. The lack of arms made it hard to identify the statue.
