Crouching Aphrodites

Two marble versions of the Crouching Aphrodite (Venus) are on display in the Palazzo Massimo in Rome. Both are Romen copies from the 2nd century AD of a Greek original from the mid-3rd century BC.

The Afrodite on the right is considered the artistically most accomplished one to have survived. It was made in the Hadrianic period (AD117-138).

The Afrodite on the left still shows the hand and foot of a little Eros and the body of a swan that was used to support the marble sculpture.