6.4: After Praxiteles, Venus

Dr. Francesca Tronchin, Dr. Beth Harris, and Dr. Steven Zucker provide a description, historical perspective, and analysis of Venus by an unknown sculpture.

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Unknown sculptor, Venus after the Greek original by Praxiteles from the fourth century BCE, Roman, 175–200 CE (Getty Villa)