Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Statue of Crouching Aphrodite
Image View:
Overall view from front
Creator:
after Doidalsas of Bithynia (Ancient Greek sculptor, active 200-100 BCE); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. 380998
Location Note:
Palazzo Altemps; Piazza di Sant'Apollinare, 46; Jandolo Collection
GPS:
41.900935 12.473053
Date:
Greek original, ca. 150 BCE (creation); Roman copy, 2nd century CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Greco-Roman; Neo-Attic
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
deities; mythology (Classical); Aphrodite (Greek deity); Venus (Roman deity)
Description:
2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original of ca. 150 BCE attributed to the sculptor Doidalsas of Bithynia. The sculptor Doidalsas is known from the Roman author Pliny, who mentioned a statue of Venus bathing herself by this artist. During the Roman period, artists produced numerous copies of a statue of a naked crouching Venus, which presumably all derived from the same model. Unfortunately, the Latin text of Pliny is unclear at this point, and the actual reading of the name and the attribution of this group of crouching Venus statues are controversial. (Source: Union List of Artist Names [online notes]; http://www.getty.edu /research/conducting _research/vocabulari es/ulan)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-G-PAL-SCA-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Statue of Crouching Aphrodite