Aphrodite of Knidos, fragment
- Title:
- Aphrodite of Knidos, fragment
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Praxiteles
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
2nd century CE (Roman copy)
ca. 350-340 BCE (Praxitelean original)
2009 (image)
- Location:
- Warehouse
- ID Number:
- CCC_0282
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 253
282 - File Name:
- CCC_0282.tif
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman, after Classical Greek
- 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 side
- Measurement:
- 114 x 40 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- This is a fragment of a cast of a Roman copy of the Aphrodite of Knidos, a fourth century BCE Greek original by the sculptor Praxiteles. This copy is known as the Venus of Colonna. Preserved here are the left hand of the goddess, the garment she holds loosely, and the decorated hydria over which the drapery falls in folds. This fragment was reattached to the major part of the cast (ID no. 282b) when it was conserved in winter 2014/2015, and then from January until July 2015, the complete statue 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. 812 - Bibliography:
- Andrew Stewart, Greek Sculpture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 176-178, figs. 503-504
Christine Mitchell Havelock, The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995) - Related Work:
- Belongs with ID no. 282b.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Vatican, Museo Pio Clementino (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.