Gorringe's Autumn Fine Sale 3rd October 2023
https://www.gorringes.co.uk/autumn-fine-auction-october-2023 Auction Preview You’ll be able to view the Lux Auction at the same time as well as the weekly House and Gardens sale, in total over a thousand lots, all being sold over two days at Gorringe’s.
https://www.gorringes.co.uk/autumn-fine-auction-october-2023
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You’ll be able to view the Lux Auction at the same time as well as the weekly House and Gardens sale, in total over a thousand lots, all being sold over two days at Gorringe’s.
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Lot 8<br />
After the Antique. A late 19th century Italian carved<br />
white marble figure of Venus Anadyomene standing semidraped,<br />
her hands adjusting her hair, signed P.Tomasi, on<br />
integral naturalistic base, 30cm wide, 96cm high<br />
£3,000 - 5,000<br />
Venus Anadyomene (from Greek, «Venus Rising from the<br />
Sea») is one of the iconic representations of the goddess<br />
Venus (Aphrodite), made famous in a much-admired painting<br />
by Apelles, now lost, but described in Pliny›s Natural<br />
History, with the anecdote that the great Apelles employed<br />
Campaspe, a mistress of Alexander the Great, for his model.<br />
According to Athenaeus, the idea of Aphrodite rising from the<br />
sea was inspired by the courtesan Phryne, who, during the<br />
time of the festivals of the Eleusinia and Poseidonia, often<br />
swam nude in the sea.<br />
The subject never entirely disappeared in Western art,<br />
and revived greatly in the Italian Renaissance, with further<br />
boosts in the Baroque and Rococo, and in late 19th-century<br />
Academic painting.<br />
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