Hand patinated reproduction. Mold made from a print of the original work. It was during the 4th century B.C. that the sculptor Praxiteles dared to represent Aphrodite, the goddess of Love. His masterpiece, the famous Aphrodite of Cnidos (of which a large number of copies and innumerable adaptations exist) left a great influence on sculptural creation. It is such that bronze workers from the Hellenistic period treated the female nude in thousands of variations, rivalling one another in grace and invention. The statue of Aphrodite admiring herself in a mirror - held in her right hand -
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