Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art · leaf 279
GREEK AND ROMAN SCULPTURES 24 1 here of the former conception of divinities; Aphrodite is merely a beautiful woman in an attitude calculated to show the human body in a graceful posture. Our statue is not an original work of the Hellenistic epoch, but a copy executed in Roman times. The original,… … ations of this subject.! CROUCHING APHRODITE A comparison between roman copy of a hi century statue the various replicas will show that there was considerable difference in the treatment of the subject. The famous copy in the Louvre, found at Vienne, France (see Museum Cast No. 816), differs from…
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