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Title: Six Greek sculptors
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939
Subjects: Sculptors Sculpture, Greek
Publisher: London : Duckworth and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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re no criteria for a certainidentification. We have already noticed that manyheads of Aphrodite of Praxitelean type are known.Among these the Petworth head is not to be regardedas a copy from the Cnidian statue, but is distinguishedfrom it by the less rounded form of the face, and greateraccentuation of the features, and also by a heavier rollof flesh round the neck—all of them characteristicswhich seem to be studied from a model of maturer age.,If the head is to be attributed to Praxiteles himself, itcertainly belongs, like the Hermes, to his later years;and it may even be suggested that, if Phryne served ashis model for Aphrodite, this Petworth head may repre-sent her later characteristics, as the Cnidian goddesscorresponds to the first bloom of her womanhood.Such a suggestion is not to be pressed in the case of anyGreek statue. But from the nature of the case itis more likely to be applicable in the case of a femalethan of a male figure. In this connection it is to be Plate XLVII
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HEAD OF APHRODITE (OR PHRYNE), PETWORTH HEAD To face p. 158 Plate XLVIII

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