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Frine di Tespie e la nuova immagine di Afrodite
140 p., 46 p. of plates : col. ill.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-84) and indexes (p.85-91).
- A conspicuous series of literary testimonies, consisting mainly but not only of anecdotes, has made Mnesarete from Thespiae, better known as Phryne, one of the most famous hetairai of the Greek world. Lived in the 4th century BC. C., she was beautiful, rich and powerful and her relationship with the sculptor Praxiteles and the defense of the orator Hyperides from the accusation of impiety were remembered by ancient writers. Her particular fortune beyond the limits of antiquity and up to the present day is essentially due to the tradition according to which Phryne posed naked for the Knidian Aphrodite, certainly upstream of the invention of the woman denudation by the hand of Hyperides before the judges and privileged reference by artists for the subsequent reworkings of the female nude.
- The truthfulness of this tradition is almost unanimously accepted by scholars but it needed to be deepened. A large part of this booklet is dedicated to its discussion and to address the complex problems arising between the use of a real model for the representation of divinity and the vision of the figurative art of the late classical period. [Publisher's text]
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