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Statues of Venus. From Antiquity to the Present
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SYSNO ASEP 0556754 Document Type B - Monograph R&D Document Type Monograph Title Statues of Venus. From Antiquity to the Present Author(s) Bažant, Jan (FLU-F) ORCID, RID, SAI Issue data Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2022 ISBN 978-3-96929-141-2 Number of pages 280 s. Publication form Online - E Language eng - English Country DE - Germany Keywords Aphrodite ; Venus ; ancient sculpture ; modern sculpture ; graphic art ; Classical tradition Subject RIV AB - History OECD category Arts, Art history Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 DOI 10.11588/propylaeum.1015 Annotation The goal of this book has been to explore the statues of Venus. Over the centuries, they have come closer to or farther away from what real women look like. From antiquity until the 21st century, sculptors have oscillated between the ideal (and therefore insipid) beauty characterizing the goddess and the seductive shapes of the body of a living woman, which for various reasons could never fully prevail. In antiquity, this was prevented by the fact that the statue depicted a goddess, in post-ancient Europe, it was primarily due to the taboo of depicting female nudity. Venus could have been depicted as a naked woman with all the racy details, but the viewer would hardly take such a depiction seriously. The artist could have eliminated attractive references to the female body from her portrayal, but how would the viewer be expected to believe that she represents Venus, the mother of Amor? Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2023 Electronic address https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1015
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