Venus de Vienne
(or
Aphrodite Bathing
) from the cover of
Pallas
, a progressive arts magazine published in Buenos Aires in 1912. The
Venus of Vienne
is a Roman sculpture from the 1st or 2nd centuries. It was sculpted after a Greek original of the 2nd century BCE, attributed to the Greek sculptor Doidalsas of Bithynia. It is a sculpture in the round of a naked woman crouching, leaving or preparing to return to her bath. Considered one of the finest roman marbles of its type, it was excavated in 1828 on the right bank of the Rhône, adjacent to the roman city of Vienne which lies across the river, and gives the work its name. The sculpture was acquired by The Louvre in 1878 and is exhibited in room 15 of the department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities.