THE BRUSSELS ANCIENT ART FAIR 2012 - Baaf
THE BRUSSELS ANCIENT ART FAIR 2012 - Baaf
THE BRUSSELS ANCIENT ART FAIR 2012 - Baaf
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<strong>THE</strong> <strong>BRUSSELS</strong> <strong>ANCIENT</strong> <strong>ART</strong> <strong>FAIR</strong><br />
Exhibiting at<br />
Costermans-Antiques<br />
Place du Grand Sablon 5<br />
Brussels<br />
Hixenbaugh Ancient Art<br />
Randall Hixenbaugh<br />
Roman Marble Aphrodite Anadyomene - An ancient Roman marble statuette of<br />
Aphrodite Anadyomene, the goddess of love, rising from her bath and leaning her<br />
head to wring out her hair. At her feet a dolphin sits with its tail curling upward.<br />
Ca. 1st century BC / 1st century AD - Height: 32.5 cm - Repaired at the knee -<br />
Fine grain Greek Island marble - Very fine style.<br />
Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty. She was also known<br />
as Cypris and Cytherea after the two places, Cyprus and Cythera, where she<br />
was said to have originated. Hephaestus was her husband, the child Eros her<br />
companion, and Ares one of her lovers. The dove, the sparrow, and the swan<br />
were the animals sacred to her. In Rome the goddess was known as Venus.<br />
The Aphrodite Anadyomene type statue depicted the goddess nude, wringing out<br />
her hair or adjusting the fillet in her hair after rising from her bath or the sea.<br />
Confer: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. no. 27.122.17;<br />
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, inv. no. 23.101.<br />
Formerly in a German private collection, prior to 1970.<br />
Hixenbaugh Ancient Art<br />
320 East 81st Street - New York, NY 10028 - United States<br />
T 1 212 861 9743 - M 1 646 326 0820<br />
info@hixenbaugh.net - www.hixenbaugh.net
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