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Mighty Aphrodite is a 1995 American comedy film written, directed by, and co-starring Woody Allen, alongside Mira Sorvino, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Rapaport, and F. Murray Abraham. The screenplay was vaguely inspired by the story of Pygmalion and is about Lenny Weinrib's (Allen) search for his genius adopted son's biological mother ...
- $26 million
- October 27, 1995 (United States)
- $15 million
- Dick Hyman
Capitoline Venus. Capitoline Venus, 2nd century C.E., marble, 193 cm (Capitoline Museums, Rome) (Roman copy of the Aphrodite of Knidos, a 4th century B.C.E. Greek original by Praxiteles) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. More art history videos on smarthistory.org.
Marble statue of Aphrodite represented with her hands covering her breasts and genitals. A water vessel draped with a discarded garment forms the statue's support. The type is known as the Capitoline Aphrodite/Venus after an exampleof the statue in Rome.
Their true passion lies 1,000ft up in the mountains of western Anatolia in Turkey, where the lost School of Aphrodisias - the last great blossoming of the sculpture of the classical world - is...
Apr 11, 2024 · Venus de Milo, ancient statue commonly thought to represent Aphrodite, now in Paris at the Louvre. It was carved from marble by Alexandros, a sculptor of Antioch on the Maeander River about 150 bce.
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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
Title: Marble statue of Aphrodite. Period: Imperial. Date: 1st–2nd century CE. Culture: Roman. Medium: Marble. Dimensions: Overall: 15 x 7 1/4 x 5 in. (38.1 x 18.4 x 12.7 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1921. Accession Number: 21.88.70
