Praxiteles's Knidia : the statue and its reception
The Aphrodite of Cnidus (Knidia) dates from the mid-fourth century BC and is the first over life-size female nude in western art. Shown with attributes of a vessel and drapery, the goddess apparently shields her nudity by drawing her right hand across her groin. The original no longer survives, dest...
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University of Oxford
2012
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