HAVELOCK, Christine Mitchell

The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors: A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art

Ann Arbor,MI: University of Michigan Press, (1995). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to. Pp. xii, 158 + plates. Black cloth, spine lettered in silver.In the dust jacket. Both book and jacket are bright and fresh. Fine / Fine. Item #10193

Havelock's book takes a new look at some of the most famous icons of Western art: the nude statues that the Greeks produced to represent Aphrodite. The Aphrodite of Knidos, by master sculptor Praxiteles, is the leading example of this form. Other statues include the Capitoline and Medici Venuses, the Crouching Aphrodite and the Aphrodite of Melos -- all of them indebted to Praxiteles.

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