Colors of Ancient Europe – Naked Aphrodite crouching at her bath from roman jar Watch Video
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Description: Marble statue of a naked Aphrodite crouching at her bath, also known as Lely’s Venus. Roman copy of a Greek original by Praxiteles.nnnIn the fourth century B.C.E. the sculptor Praxiteles created a life-size naked statue of Aphrodite (Venus). It was placed in a shrine in her temple at Knidos in today south-western Turkey. It was an important innovation in classical sculpture, and subsequent Hellenistic sculptors created several new types of nude Aphrodite figures, that further emphasized the se
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