Venus of Arles
Marble from the mount Hymette.Roman work of the late 1st cent. BCE after a work by Praxiteles.
H. 194 cm. Inv. Nos. MR 365 / Ma 439.Paris, Louvre MuseumPhoto by Ilya Shurygin
Venus of Arles.
Marble from the mount Hymette.
Roman work of the late 1st cent. BCE after a work by Praxiteles.
H. 194 cm.
Roman work of the late 1st cent. BCE after a work by Praxiteles.
H. 194 cm.
Inv. Nos. MR 365 / Ma 439.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
Origin:
Was found in three fragments in the course of excavations of the Roman theatre in Arles in 1651. Entered the Louvre in 1797 by the revolutionary confiscation.
Literature:
Brunilde S. Ridgway. The Aphrodite of Arles. Am. J. Archaeol. 1976, 80:147-154.
Credits:
© 2014. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
Data: museum annotation.
Data: museum annotation.
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