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....
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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...
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Knidos or Cnidus (/ˈnaɪdəs/; Greek: Κνίδος, Ancient: [knídos], Modern: [ˈkniðos], Knídos) was a Greek city in ancient Caria and part of the Dorian Hexapolis...
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Venus de Milo (redirect from Aphrodite of Melos)
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....
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Aphrodite proliferated; many of these statues were modeled at least to some extent on Praxiteles's Aphrodite of Knidos. Some statues show Aphrodite crouching...
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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...
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Phryne (category Artists' models of ancient Greece)
historical accuracy of this episode is doubtful. She also modeled for the artists Apelles and Praxiteles, and the Aphrodite of Knidos was based on her....
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Venus de' Medici (category Roman copies of Greek sculptures)
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....
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Praxiteles (redirect from Praxiteles of Athens)
Retrieved 2017-06-15. Seaman, Kristen (2004). "Retrieving the Original Aphrodite of Knidos". Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti Classe di...
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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...
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Iris Love (category American people of German-Jewish descent)
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...
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Venus Callipyge (redirect from Aphrodite Kallipygos)
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...
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historical home of Sappho. Cnidus (Knidos), then a Greek city in present-day southwestern Turkey, site of the aforementioned Aphrodite of Knidos sculpture....
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Venus figurine (section History of discovery)
("immodest Venus"). The Marquis then contrasted the ivory figurine to the Aphrodite Of Knidos, a Greco-Roman sculpture depicting Venus covering her naked body...
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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...
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Venus Anadyomene (redirect from Aphrodite Anadyomene)
University of Leicester. Especially pp. 126–132. Havelock, Christine (1995). The Aphrodite of Knidos and her successors: a historical review of the female...
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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...
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Ancient Greek sculpture (redirect from Sculpture of Ancient Greece)
first to be considered artistically respectable. Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos, which survives in copies, was often referenced to and praised by Pliny...
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Galatea (mythology) (category Deeds of Aphrodite)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Apoxyomenos (category Roman copies of 4th-century BC Greek sculptures)
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...
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Basiliscus (category House of Leo)
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...
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Colonna Venus (category Roman copies of 4th-century BC Greek sculptures)
Redaktion der Knidischen Aphrodite". Istanbuler Mitteilungen. 35: 173–80. Mitchell Havelock, Christine (2010) [1995]. The Aphrodite of Knidos and her successors :...
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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...
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Venus of Martres is a sculpture fragment from an antique replica of the Aphrodite of Knidos. The replica was made around the first century of the common...
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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...
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Lost artworks (redirect from Lost works of art)
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...
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of the famed Aphrodite of Knidos, is credited with having thus created a canonical form for the female nude, but neither the original work nor any of...
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Blond (section Genetics of blond hair)
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...
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