Identifier: sixgreeksculptor00gard (find matches)
Title: Six Greek sculptors
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939
Subjects: Sculptors Sculpture, Greek
Publisher: London : Duckworth and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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HEAD OF APHRODITE (OR PHRYNE), PETWORTH HEAD To face p. 158 Plate XLVIII
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TORSO OF APHRODITE, TYPE OF VENUS OF ARLES, IN ATHENS To face p. 159 PRAXITELES 159 remembered that Praxiteles made two portrait statues of Phryne which were set up, one in marble at her native town of Thespiae, and the other in gilt bronze at Delphi. We have no certain criteria by which these portraits or copies of them may be recognised among extant statues, and without further information as to their pose and motive, any such identification can only be conjectural; but it has been suggested with some probability that one of the Praxitelean figures representing a goddess or a woman at her toilet, holding a mirror in one hand and doing up her hair with the other, maybe derived from the statue of Phryne. The type is one that is familiar with many variations in the sculpture that owes its inspiration to Praxiteles. The figure is standing, her drapery fixed in a coil about her waist orher hips, so as to leave the upper part of her body bare; well-known examples are the Venus of Aries in the Louvre and the Townley Venus in the British Museum; a beautiful example of the torso only is to be seen in Athens and is here reproduced.

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