The Venus of Kołobrzeg, discovered by a Polish farmer on the Baltic coast in 2022, has been authenticated as a Neolithic ...

Next time you’re leafing through your copy of Erotes by Lucian of Samosata (my favourite moment is after work on Fridays just before the pub) check his account of the famed Aphrodite of Knidos.

To illustrate how a marble Aphrodite might have appeared to the ancients, we asked German archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann, who has pioneered techniques of color restoration, to create a ...

Variant of the Statue of Aphrodite of Knidos at the Palazzo Altemps in Rome. José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro. Credit: CC 4.0 Aphrodite of Knidos stands as perhaps the most widely known statue dedicated to ...

One of the first female nude forms in Greek art was the Aphrodite of Knidos, the goddess of love, from the 4th century BC.

The essence of Aphrodite's power was her ability to provoke desire. Sexual allure was long an intrinsic aspect of Aphrodite, and erotic pleasures were referred to as ta Aphrodisia, "the business of ...

The Aphrodite of Knidos and her successors : a historical review of the female nude in Greek art by Havelock, Christine Mitchell Publication date 1995 Topics Praxiteles, active 4th century B.C.

Although tight, we managed to squeeze in and anchor in the southeast corner, taking in the incredible sight of the city ruins scattered on the surrounding slopes. Founded by Greek settlers, Knidos was ...