Crouching Aphrodite, after Doidalses, handcrafted from artificial marble, museum replica

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Crouching Aphrodite

Bishop Eusebius warned of the “pernicious trap of the soul” and the goddess of love, who tempted people to unchristian practices. For her sake, and for the sake of the Bithynian King Nicomedes I, Doidalses invented this version: her head turned to the side, she crouches down to be bathed after a night of love. The triangular composition is also a sophisticated embodiment of her sacred initial, the Phoenician-Greek A of Astarte-Aphrodite.
Original: Vatican Museums, Rome. Hellenistic, 3rd century BC; Roman copy after Doidalses, marble.

Hand-cast polymer ars mundi museum replica. Dimensions: 28 x 53 x 19 cm (W/H/D).