Aphrodite Binding Her Hair (Diadoumene)
Marble is a difficult material for a statuette of a nude figure, as the limbs are apt to break. This figure is supported by a tree stump touching her leg. In the bronze original, Venus wrung out the long tresses of her hair with raised arms, while in the marble this motif has...
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4903
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sculpture
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normalized
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[Said to have been found at Panderma (Kyzikos), 1884]; A. J. von Nelidow, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Collection de Son Exc. Mr. de Nelidow, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 23-24 May 1911, no. 248, pl. II-IV; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1911, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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1
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_23.83_Fnt_BW.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_23.83_Fnt_BW.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_23.83_Fnt_BW.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/23.83 |
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