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....

The Temple of Aphrodite Euploia was a sanctuary in ancient Knidos (Modern day Datça Turkey) dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite. It was a famous pilgrimage...

Mitchell (1995). The Aphrodite of Knidos and her Successors: a Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press....

Aphrodite proliferated; many of these statues were modeled at least to some extent on Praxiteles's Aphrodite of Knidos. Some statues show Aphrodite crouching...

speaker calls on the help of Aphrodite in the pursuit of a beloved. The poem survives in almost complete form, with only two places of uncertainty in the text...

Knidos or Cnidus (/ˈnaɪdəs/; Ancient Greek: Κνίδος, Ancient: [knídos], Modern: [ˈkniðos], Knídos) was a Greek city in ancient Caria and part of the Dorian...

type of the Aphrodite of Knidos, which would have been made by a sculptor in the immediate Praxitelean tradition, perhaps at the end of the century....

historical accuracy of this episode is doubtful. She also modeled for the artists Apelles and Praxiteles: the Aphrodite of Knidos was said to be based...

discovery and likened to the Aphrodite of Knidos by some scholars. It is usually assigned to the Greek goddess Aphrodite, but has been associated with...

Retrieved 2017-06-15. Seaman, Kristen (2004). "Retrieving the Original Aphrodite of Knidos". Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti Classe di...

classical archaeologist, best known for the rediscovery of the Temple of Aphrodite in Knidos. Love was born in New York to Cornelius Love, a diplomat...

spoken of by Alciphron at Athens. Aphrodite Urania Aphrodite of Knidos "Leaning Aphrodite known as Aphrodite of the Gardens". The Macao Museum of Art. Elisabeth...

Mitchell (2007). The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors: A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-03277-8...

("immodest Venus"). The Marquis then contrasted the ivory figurine to the Aphrodite Of Knidos, a Greco-Roman sculpture depicting Venus covering her naked body...

first to fully explore the sensual possibilities of marble. The erotic appeal of his Aphrodite of Knidos – the first completely nude female statue in Greek...

University of Leicester. Especially pp. 126–132. Havelock, Christine (1995). The Aphrodite of Knidos and her successors: a historical review of the female...

model of the universe with the stars rotating on a fixed celestial sphere. Praxiteles makes the Aphrodite of Knidos (approximate date). A composite of two...

and the drapery suggest that Aphrodite may be about to take a bath or has just finished bathing. In Aphrodite of Knidos, the drapery in her hand (plus...

sculpture Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles of Athens from the fourth century B.C. Bronzino's so-called "allegorical portraits" such as the Portrait of Andrea...

named as the mother of Adonis. It was commonly rumored in Roman times that Praxiteles's cult image of Aphrodite of Knidos in Aphrodite's temple was so beautiful...

a library containing 120,000 books, as well as the Palace of Lausus, the Aphrodite of Knidos, the Lindian Athene, and the Samian Here. Bury remarks that...

first to be considered artistically respectable. Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos, which survives in copies, was often referenced to and praised by Pliny...

Redaktion der Knidischen Aphrodite". Istanbuler Mitteilungen. 35: 173–80. Mitchell Havelock, Christine (2010) [1995]. The Aphrodite of Knidos and her successors :...

A Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), tomb sculpture of a pixiu (or chimera) creature Aphrodite of Knidos, 2nd Century Roman, inspired by Praxiteles Saraswati...

model of the universe with the stars rotating on a fixed celestial sphere. Praxiteles makes the Aphrodite of Knidos (approximate date). A composite of two...

reports. Compare the myth of Pygmalion and the anecdote that was circulating in Rome about an admirer of Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos. Tiberius at least removed...

Lost artworks are original pieces of art that credible sources or material evidence indicate once existed but that cannot be accounted for in museums or...

Christine Mitchell,The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors: A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art, University of Michigan Press, 2007,...

athletes at the Nemean Games. The most famous statue of Aphrodite, the Aphrodite of Knidos, sculpted in the fourth century BC by Praxiteles, represented the...

his Aphrodite of Knidos, which survives in copies, was said by Pliny to be the greatest statue in the world. The most famous works of the Classical period...