Aphrodite Fréjus or Type Louvre-Naples
- Title:
- Aphrodite Fréjus or Type Louvre-Naples
so-called "Venus Genetrix" - Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Musées Nationaux Moulages (reproduction)
Unknown (Roman copy)
attributed to Callimachus (Greek original) (original)
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
ca. 75-125 CE (this Roman copy)
ca. 420-400 BCE (Greek original)
- Site:
- Paris, France (reproduction)
Fréjus, France (discovery site, 1650) (original) - Location:
- Warehouse
previously, Sibley Hall, Room 235, mezzanine level, Cornell University
Paris, France (reproduction)
Fréjus, France (discovery site, 1650) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0927
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 99
750 - File Name:
- CCC_0927.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 164 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after High Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (copy)
Bronze (original) - Subject:
- Aphrodite (Greek deity)
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 178 (centimeters, height)
plinth: 9 x 50.5 x 51.5 (centimeters, height x length x width) - Description:
- This is a cast of the standing, draped Aphrodite known as the Aphrodite Fréjus or Venus Genetrix. The goddess places her weight on her left leg, while her right leg is bent back at the knee. She tilts her head slightly to her left and down, and casts her glance out towards the viewer. Her diaphanous chiton extends to the floor, clinging to her body in shallow folds. She holds it up at the shoulder with her right arm, and it dips to expose her left breast. In this cast, Aphrodite's left arm, which she extends out to hold an apple in the original (Roman copy), is broken at the mid forearm. The statue is a Roman Imperial copy in marble of a late fifth century BCE Greek original in bronze sometimes attributed to the sculptor Callimachus. The statue type was perhaps adopted by Julius Caesar for a statue of Venus Genetrix dedicated in his forum in Rome, attributed to the sculptor Arkesilaos. Thus, this statue is often identified as the Venus Genetrix type, but see Brinke 1991 against this argument. 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."
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. MA 525 - Bibliography:
- Andrew Stewart, Greek Sculpture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 167, 271, fig. 426
Margit Brinke, Kopienkritische und typologische Untersuchungen zur statuarischen Überlieferung der Aphrodite Typus Louvre-Neapel (Hamburg: Kovač, 1991)
P.P. Caproni and brother, Catalogue of Plaster Reproductions from Antique, Medieval and Modern Sculpture (Boston, MA, 1911), 12 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Paris, Louvre (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.