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Aphrodite

CultureRoman
Dateca. 4th-6th century C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 7 3/4 inches (19.69 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number44-25
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 105
Collections
Exhibition History

Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22, 1947.

 

Hellenistic Art in Asia, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, December 28, 1954-February 15, 1955.

 

Those Beguiling Women, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, September 27-October 30, 1983.

Provenance

With Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, by 1944;

 

Purchased from Heeramaneck Galleries, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.
Published References

Early Christian and Byzantine Art, an Exhibition Held at The Baltimore Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947), 58, no. 207, plate 36.

 

“Byzantine Art in Baltimore,” Time Magazine (May 5, 1947): 63, (repro.).

 

Stanley Hayter, “The Image Makers,” Magazine of Art 40, no. 6 (October 1947): 239-40, (repro.) 

 

Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Hellenistic Art in Asia, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1954), 23.

 

Charles Seltman, Women in Antiquity (London: Thames and Hudson, 1956), plate 30b.

 

Robert Wallace, “How the Moon Affects the Earth’s Affairs,” Life Magazine 45, no. 24 (December 15, 1958): 94, (repro.).

 

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 44.

 

Theodore Bowie, East-West in Art (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966), 76, fig. 102.

 

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 57.

 

J. Newman and L. Newman, The Mirror Book: Using Reflective Surfaces in Art, Craft and Design (New York: Crown Publishers, 1978), plate 1.

 

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Those Beguiling Women, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 6, no. 7, 13, (repro.).

 

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 124.

 

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 20. fig. 51.

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