Venus - Reproduction

$60.00 at The Getty Museum.

The 2nd-century CE statue that inspired this reproduction portrays Venus enfolding herself in drapery that modestly covers yet also sensuously reveals her nudity. At her feet, a dolphin supports the figure and alludes to the goddess of love’s birth from the sea. This depiction of Venus ultimately derived from an extremely popular cult statue known as the Aphrodite of Knidos, which was created by the sculptor Praxiteles about 350 BCE. Indeed, Praxiteles’s innovative work was so renowned that, beginning around…