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

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Crouching Aphrodite

Bishop Eusebius warned of the goddess of love as a "pernicious trap of the soul," a figure 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).