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The Aphrodite of Rhodes (Greek: Αφροδίτη της Ρόδου) also known as the Crouching Venus of Rhodes is a marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Aphrodite housed in the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes in Rhodes, Greece.It depicts Aphrodite in the crouching Venus pose, where the goddess crouches her right knee close to the ground and turns her head to the right.
The Venus de Milo is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, whose Roman counterpart was Venus. Made of Parian marble, the statue is larger than life size, standing over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high. The statue is missing both arms.
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.
6 wrz 2024 · Aphrodite of Knidos stands as perhaps the most widely known statue dedicated to the goddess. It was carved in the fourth century BC by the Athenian sculptor Praxiteles and marked a novel shift in how the female body was represented in sculptural art.
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.
Striking examples such as the colossal Zeus statue at Olympia and the risque nudity of the Aphrodite of Knidos are prime examples of how such sculptures attracted visitors, further bolstering the Greek city-states' economic prosperity.
This magnificent large bronze statuette represents only one variation on the Praxitelean original. While originally an over-life-sized work sculpted in Parian marble, the Aphrodite of Knidos was widely imitated and adapted by artists of the Greek and Roman world in many mediums and on many scales.
