A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty ... reading “of the Paphian Goddess,” is a reference to Aphrodite. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Given the goddess ...

Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art had a magnificent new treasure from ancient Rome to show its visitors this week: a smooth-limbed, white marble statue of Aphrodite, shown startled at her ...

The first room opens with the most conventional image of a goddess identified with love and beauty ... numerous cities by their ancient coins, each bearing Aphrodite’s image in a different ...

To describe the ancient Greek deity Aphrodite simply as "the goddess of love" is ... well, just too simple. Skip to main content Skip to main content Register for more free ...

from an ancient gold wreath to the stone goddess in question — where Felch and Frammolino got the name of their new book: Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's ...

With stunning ancient artwork, Aphrodite and the Gods of Love explores the goddess' role as the protectress ... and feature approximately 1,200 works of art including statues, luxury vessels ...

The next time you're strolling along Tampa's Riverwalk, look up at the Tampa Museum of Art and see a monumental sculpture of the goddess of love, Aphrodite ... explored the ancient world in ...

Liberated from its shipping crates, the ancient statue drew a crowd ... It was thought to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. Some who came to see it believed that the sculpture would ...

Aphrodite is far more than just a simple love deity. This is the conclusion of Professor Bettany Hughes, who visited one of the proposed birthplaces of the deity — the coast of Paphos, Cyprus ...

As the goddess of love, beauty and ... such as Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos or the Venus de Milo. That image is dead wrong, according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much ...