Details of a 1st c. BCE statue of Aphrodite, of the Venus Pudica, or modest, type. Near the statue's left foot, a little casket bears the Greek inscription: "of the Aphrodite which is situated in the Troad, Menophantos made it". #archaeology
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That's marvelous, and makes me wonder for the billionth time what the heck happened that representational art seems to have just disappeared during the Middle Ages. Greeks, Romans, Etruscans, and so on had beautifully executed work scattered all over the world and then somehow everybody forgot how to do it. Even though examples to imitate were everywhere.
