A ROMAN MARBLE VENUS

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

细节

A ROMAN MARBLE VENUS
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Perhaps originally a portrait of an individual in the guise of the goddess, the over-lifesized figure standing on an integral oval plinth with her weight on her right leg, the left relaxed and bent at the knee with the heel lifted, draped in a voluminous diaphanous himation, revealing the form of her body beneath including her breasts, naval and left leg, the excess drapery gathered around her right hip, falling down her right leg and amassed between her legs, the hem clinging to the top of her feet, her toes emerging from below, wearing platform sandals, the himation originally draped over her separately-made and now-missing left arm, the right arm and head also separately-made and originally pinned into place, the mortises all visible
65¼ in. (165.7 cm.) high

来源

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10-11 December 1984, lot 352.

拍品专文

This figure is a variation of the so-called Aphrodite Frejus or Venus Genetrix. Based on a late 5th century B.C. Greek prototype, it was further popularized in the Julio-Claudian Period, as Julius Caesar and his successors sought to identify with the goddess as progenitor of their family. Claiming direct descent from the goddess and Aeneas, Caesar built a temple to Venus Genetrix in his forum in Rome in 45 B.C. For a similar example see no. 242, p. 27 in Delivorrias, Berger-Doer and Kossatz-Deissmann, "Aphrodite" in LIMC.