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A ROMAN MARBLE VENUS
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A ROMAN MARBLE VENUS

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

已结束2016年4月12日

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A ROMAN MARBLE VENUS
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
The goddess depicted standing with her weight on her left leg, the right relaxed and slightly bent at the knee, a voluminous diaphanous chiton enveloping her sensuous body, revealing a slightly protruding belly, her left breast exposed, with drapery falling over the crook of her bent left arm, her right arm originally raised
18 1/8 in. (46 cm.) high

Private Collection, New York, Boston & Texas, acquired prior to 1992; thence by descent to the current owner.

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This figure is a variation of the Aphrodite Frejus or Venus Genetrix type. 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 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, in A. Delivorrias, et al., "Aphrodite" in LIMC, vol II.