Crouching Aphrodite
€1,780.00
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23905872745
Product information "Crouching Aphrodite"
Bishop Eusebios warned against the goddess of love, who seduces people into unchristian practices. For her and the Bithynian king Nicomedes I, Doidalses invented this variant: with her head turned to the side, she crouches down to have her bath water poured over her after a night of love. The triangular composition is also a sophisticated embodiment of her sacred initial, the Phoenician-Greek A of Astarte-Aphrodite. Original: Vatican Museum, Rome. Hellenistic, 3rd century BC; Roman copy after Doidalses, marble. Polymer ars mundi museum replica moulded by hand. Size 28 x 53 x 19 cm (w/h/d).