Copy of the Aphrodite of Knidos

3rd-2nd century BCE (Greco-Roman)

7.8 cm 24.5 cm 6.9 cm

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Most Hellenistic representations of Aphrodite were inspired by the Aphrodite of Cnidus, a statue made by Praxiteles in about 364 BC, of which this is a copy. The original was made for the island of Cos, which had commissioned the artist for a statue of the goddess. Because the...

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Mrs. Wood, Brooklyn, New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Hellenistic
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