He tries to pull her hand away from her covered groin.
Marble group of aphrodite with pan and eros hellenistic.
A delightful composition carved in white marble from paros in the hellenistic era circa 100 bce.
The manner in which she bends her left leg lends a gracefulness to her stance.
The goddess aphrodite fends off the lascivious goat legged god pan with a raised sandal.
100 bce marble height 4 feet 4 inches national museum athens.
National archaeological museum athens greece.
A sculpture of aphrodite pan and eros exhibited in the national archaeological museum of athens in greece is estimated to be carved at about 100 bc by an unknown sculptor.
It depicts a nude of goddess aphrodite attempting to repel the erotic advances of the goat footed god pan.
The beautiful piece of art was found in 1904 on the island of delos in a room of the hall of the guild of the poseidoniasts of beirut who were the worshippers of the god poseidon.
Group of aphrodite pan and eros this is one of the best known and most characteristic representations of the goddess aphrodite assaulted by the goat legged pan.
The undressing of aphrodite for example became the norm but hellenistic sculptors went beyond praxiteles and openly explored the eroticism of the nude female form.
Traces of color are still faintly visible.
Aphrodite of delos marble group of aphrodite with pan and eros about 100 bc aphrodite of delos with pan eros the naked goddess of beauty and love is rendered frontally with hair well combed and tied up by means of a scarf bound in a bow above her parting.
Aphrodite pan and eros from the establishment of the poseidoniasts of berytos beirut on delos c.
The group stands on its original square base which bears a votive inscription.
It was made of parian marble one of the world s finest semi translucent pure white marble famous since the ancient times.
Marble group statue of aphrodite pan and eros from delos 100 bc the national archaeological museum of athens this group statue made of parian marble was found in the sacred island of delos.
The famous venus de milo is a larger than life size marble statue of aphrodite found on melos together with its inscribed base now lost signed by the sculptor alexandros of antioch on the meander.
Aphrodite eros and pan sculptural group with aphrodite repelling pan with her sandal and the help of eros.