The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Head of Aphrodite
100–200 CE
Location: 103 Roman
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The elaborate hairstyle, arranged in a bow atop the head, identifies this figure as Aphrodite.Description
With idealized features including a straight nose, small mouth with thick lips, and a hairstyle best known from the so-called Capitoline Venus (now in Rome), this head likely belonged to a full-scale statue of the goddess of love. Like the Capitoline Venus and many other sculptures of the Roman period, it probably showed the goddess nude and bathing, harking back to the groundbreaking sculpture of Aphrodite at Knidos, carved by Praxiteles in the mid-fourth century BC.- W. M. M., T. S., R. H., and F. A. W. "In Memoriam: Jeptha Homer Wade." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no. 4 (1926): 63-91. Mentioned, p. 69. www.jstor.orgBieber, Margarete. "Greek Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art," Art in America Vol. 31 no. 3 (July 1943), pp. 112-126. Ill. fig. 12, discussed p. 124.
- The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
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