Aphrodite of Capua
- Title:
- Aphrodite of Capua
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
100-150 CE (Roman copy)
- Site:
- Capua, Campania, Italy (discovery site) (original)
- Location:
- Sibley Hall (Room 235), upper level, Cornell University
Capua, Campania, Italy (discovery site) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0808
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 311
747 - File Name:
- CCC_0808.tif
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Hellenistic
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Aphrodite (Greek deity)
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 221 (centimeters, height)
plinth: 58 x 43 (centimeters, length x width) - Description:
- This is a cast of the standing, semi-nude statue of Aphrodite discovered in the Amphitheater at ancient Capua and known as the Aphrodite of Capua. She places her weight on her right leg and bends her left leg forward to rest her foot on the helmet of Ares. Her lower half is draped in a heavy himation that rests along her left hip and slips low on her right, revealing the top of her buttocks when viewed from behind. Her head is turned towards her left and she casts her gaze down. Her wavy hair is twisted up at the sides and tied in the back and she wears a diadem. In this cast, her left arm is missing from the shoulder and the fingers on her right hand are damaged or missing. The original was restored in 1820 with the right arm across the body and the left arm outstretched, in which the figure is conjectured to have held the shield of Ares, using it as a mirror. This cast was made after the arms, parts of the drapery, and the nose of the original were restored in 1820. From January until July 2015, this object was exhibited in the Bartels Gallery, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, as part of an exhibition titled "Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy." This cast was conserved in winter 2014/2015.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
inv. 6017 - Bibliography:
- Christine Mitchell Havelock, The Aphrodite of Knidos and her Successors (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995)
P.P. Caproni and brother, Catalogue of Plaster Reproductions from Antique, Medieval and Modern Sculpture (Boston, MA, 1911), 27
Heiner Knell, "Die Aphrodite von Capua und ihre Repliken," AntP 22 (1993), 117-139 - Related Work:
- ID no. 721 is a cast of the bust of this statue.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Naples, National Archaeological Museum (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.