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Venus de Milo cca . 130 BCE (discovered 1820). Praxiteles (4 th century B.C.). The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos. The Ludovisi Aphrodite of Cnidus (Roman copy): Venus Pudica. The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy. Phryne. Courtesan, mistress of Praxiteles
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Praxiteles (4th century B.C.) The Aphrodite of Cnidus Kos Knidos The Ludovisi Aphrodite of Cnidus (Roman copy): Venus Pudica The Colonna Venus, a Roman Copy
Phryne • Courtesan, mistress of Praxiteles • Wealthy: “destroyed by Alexander, restored by Phryne the courtesan” (offered to rebuild the walls of Thebes) • ? Swam in the nude, inspired the myth of the birth of Venus
Jean-LéonGérôme,Phryne before the Aeropagus, 1861with Hypereides the Orator
SandroBoticelli, Birth of Venus, 1485-6, Galleria dei Uffizi, Florence
Salvador Dali, Venus on a Shell, 1976
Anonymous (School of Fontaineblau, 16th century), Gabrielle d’Estree and one of her sisters?, Musee du Louvre
Melanie Manchot, Emma and Charlie I, 2001, The Brooklyn Museumhttp://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/melanie_manchot.php?i=481
Melanie Manchot, Namita and Zena, 2001, The Brooklyn Museumhttp://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/melanie_manchot.php?i=482
Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque, 1812, Musée du Louvre