id:			108854
accession number:	1926.53
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.53
updated:		2022-01-04 15:05:57.165000

Head of Aphrodite, AD 100–200. Italy, Roman, 2nd Century. Marble; overall: 30.3 cm (11 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1926.53

title:				Head of Aphrodite
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creation date:			AD 100–200
creation date earliest:		100
creation date latest:		200
current location:		103 Roman
creditline:			Gift of J. H. Wade
copyright:			

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culture:	Italy, Roman, 2nd Century
technique:	marble
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Roman
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 30.3 cm (11 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
	opening date:   1941-06-23T04:00:00
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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fun fact: 
The elaborate hairstyle, arranged in a bow atop the head, identifies this figure as Aphrodite.

digital description: 
With idealized features including a straight nose, small mouth with thick lips, and a hairstyle best known from the so-called Capitoline Venus (now in Rome), this head likely belonged to a full-scale statue of the goddess of love. Like the Capitoline Venus and many other sculptures of the Roman period, it probably showed the goddess nude and bathing, harking back to the groundbreaking sculpture of Aphrodite at Knidos, carved by Praxiteles in the mid-fourth century BC.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	W. M. M., T. S., R. H., and F. A. W. "In Memoriam: Jeptha Homer Wade." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 13, no. 4 (1926): 63-91.
	page number: 	Mentioned, p. 69.
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136919.

	Bieber, Margarete. "Greek Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art," <em>Art in America</em> Vol. 31 no. 3 (July 1943), pp. 112-126.
	page number: 	Ill. fig. 12, discussed p. 124.
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IMAGES

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