Hellenistic - Aphrodite

Hellenistic - AphroditeA print of a Hellenistic Aphrodite torso the surviving fragmentary body of a classical statue of the Greek goddess of love and beauty, of the type produced in volume by Greek and Roman workshops from the 4th century BC onward. Aphrodite sculpture has its foundational moment in Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos, carved in the mid 4th century BC the first large scale female nude in Greek art, famous in antiquity, lost now except through Roman copies.

the stance of a soldier-king

A print of an Ionic capital — the scrolled

Meleager was a prince of Calydon in Aetolia

The sculpture's concetto — its governing idea — is torsion: every limb of the composition spirals

From Michelangelo's famous admiration for the Belvedere Torso through Rodin's entire career

Venus sets her four impossible tasks

Crane's plate brings all of it into a single tightly composed frame — the sleeping Gorgons

was king of Salamis and

through all her phases

A statue of Trajan originally crowned it

A tighter crop of the right hand of Michelangelo's David (1501–1504)

Menelaus invoked the oath the kings of Greece had sworn during her earlier courtship — all of them to come to the aid of her eventual husband if she were ever taken — and that oath became the political justification for the Trojan War