Venus of Arles
The Venus of Arles is a 1.94-metre-high (6.4 ft) sculpture of Venus at the Musée du Louvre. It is in Hymettus marble and dates to the end of the 1st century BC. It may be a copy of the Aphrodite of Thespiae by Praxiteles, ordered by the courtesan Phryne. In the 2nd century AD, Pausanias mentioned the existence at Thespiae in Boeotia (central Greece) of a group made up of Cupid, Phryne and Aphrodite. The Praxitelean style may be detected in the head's resemblance to that of the Cnidian Aphrodite, a work of Praxiteles known through copies. In a tentative attempt to reconstruct his career, the original Aphrodite of Thespiae would be a work from his youth (in the 360s BC), if we choose to believe that this partially draped female (frequently repeated in the Hellenistic era – the Venus de Milo,
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Venus of Arles
The Venus of Arles is a 1.94-metre-high (6.4 ft) sculpture of Venus at the Musée du Louvre. It is in Hymettus marble and dates to the end of the 1st century BC. It may be a copy of the Aphrodite of Thespiae by Praxiteles, ordered by the courtesan Phryne. In the 2nd century AD, Pausanias mentioned the existence at Thespiae in Boeotia (central Greece) of a group made up of Cupid, Phryne and Aphrodite. The Praxitelean style may be detected in the head's resemblance to that of the Cnidian Aphrodite, a work of Praxiteles known through copies. In a tentative attempt to reconstruct his career, the original Aphrodite of Thespiae would be a work from his youth (in the 360s BC), if we choose to believe that this partially draped female (frequently repeated in the Hellenistic era – the Venus de Milo,
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La Venere di Arles è una statu ...... ta presso il Museo del Louvre.
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La Venus de Arlés es una escul ...... o se ve en la Afrodita Cnidea.
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La Vénus d'Arles (du nom du li ...... lles pendant plus d'un siècle.
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The Venus of Arles is a 1.94-m ...... seen on the Cnidian Aphrodite.
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Вене́ра Арлезиа́нская (Афродит ...... да она была перенесена в Лувр.
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La Venere di Arles è una statu ...... ta presso il Museo del Louvre.
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La Venus de Arlés es una escul ...... véase por ejemplo la Venus de
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La Vénus d'Arles (du nom du li ...... rrait être l'une des sources d
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The Venus of Arles is a 1.94-m ...... istic era – the Venus de Milo,
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Вене́ра Арлезиа́нская (Афродит ...... Брунильды Риджуэй (англ.), ор
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Venere di Arles
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Venus de Arlés
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Venus of Arles
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Vénus d'Arles
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Венера Арлезианская
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