Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York [The Gilliss Press] · leaf 165
epresented the new-born goddessrising from the sea and drying her hair; but the arguments of O. Benndorf (Athenische Mitteilungen, I, 1876, pp. 50 ff.)for the possibility that the Apelles Aphrodite was conceived with thelower part of her body still immersed in the water appear more convincing.… … 221 222 STATUETTE OF APHRODITE. She is nude and stands withher weight on her right leg and the left a little drawn back. The rightarm is lowered; in the left she holds up an apple. Her head is inclinedto the right. She wears a diadem and has wavy hair done up in a knotbehind, with a tress falling…
Bronzes · Art, Ancient
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