For the love of Aphrodite
Feb 02, 2022
3 minutes
Huon Mallalieu
IN 475AD, a fire destroyed much of Constantinople, including the Lauseion, or Palace of Lausus, which contained an unrivalled collection of Greek sculpture. One of the most revered was the Aphrodite of Knidos, sculpted by Praxiteles 800 years earlier, which was one of the earliest Greek representations of the nude female form.
The goddess was posed covering herself with one or both hands as she stepped from a bath. Although the original was destroyed, its renown was such that many copies and variants had
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