Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos may be the first fully nude female in Greek sculpture. Aphrodite, was known as the Greek goddess of love, beauty, and sexual desire.
Greek and Roman Culture
sculpture, figure, effigy, idol, model
If your talking about the statue of Athena in the Parthenon then she was wearing a Greek chiton and had all of her battle armor on.
It is the work of Alexandros the Antioch. It is a famous Greek marble sculpture. It is believed that it depicts Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
Edmund von Mach has written: 'Greek sculpture' -- subject(s): Greek Sculpture 'Germany's point of view' -- subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 'A handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture' -- subject(s): Roman Sculpture, Greek Sculpture 'Greek sculpture, its spirit and principles' -- subject(s): Greek Sculpture
Carl Bluemel has written: 'Greek sculptors at work' -- subject(s): Greek Sculpture, Sculpture grecque 'Greek sculptors at work' -- subject(s): Greek Sculpture, Sculptors, Sculpture, Technique
Luciano Laurenzi has written: 'Ritratti greci' -- subject(s): Greek Portrait sculpture, Greek Portraits, Greek Sculpture, Portrait sculpture
Karl Schefold has written: 'Die Bildnisse der antiken Dichter, Redner und Denker' -- subject(s): Greek Portrait sculpture, Greek Sculpture, Portrait sculpture, Greek, Portrait sculpture, Roman, Roman Portrait sculpture, Roman Sculpture, Sculpture, Greek, Sculpture, Roman 'Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst' -- subject(s): Art, Greek, Greek Art 'Die Griechen und ihre Nachbarn' -- subject(s): Ancient Art, Art, Ancient, Art, Greco-Roman, Art, Greek, Greek Art 'Gods and heroes in late archaic Greek art' -- subject(s): Art, Greek, Gods in art, Greek Art, Mythology, Greek, in art 'Kertscher Vasen' -- subject(s): Greek Vases, Vase-painting, Greek, Vases, Greek 'The art of classical Greece' -- subject(s): Art, Greek, Greek Art
Greek sculpture influenced the Romans from the 2nd century BC. Prominent 1st century BC and 1st century AD Romans such as Cicero and Pliny the Elder greatly admired the innovative work of classical Greek sculpture artists, such as Polykleitos. However, the Romans did not produce much sculpture based on the classical Greek model. Their sculpture was predominantly portraiture (see below) until , from the 1st century AD, the Romans adopted Hellenistic sculpture, which took sculpture to a different level, as a model for their own sculpture. Prior to the influence of Greek sculpture, Roman sculpture was portraiture sculpture (busts). Their portraiture sculpture is regarded as the best sculpture of this kind ever produced.
Ulrich Hausmann has written: 'Griechische Weihreliefs' -- subject(s): Greek Sculpture, Relief (Sculpture), Sculpture, Greek, Votive offerings
Spyros Meletzees has written: 'National Museum of Archaeology, Athens' -- subject(s): Catalogs, Greek Sculpture, Sculpture, Sculpture, Greek
Ruurd B. Halbertsma has written: 'Beeldhouwkunst uit Hellas en Rome' -- subject- s -: Classical Sculpture, Greek Sculpture, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden, Roman Sculpture, Sculpture, Sculpture, Classical, Sculpture, Greek, Sculpture, Roman
Frederick R. Grace has written: 'Archaic sculpture in Boeotia' -- subject(s): Antiquities, Greek Sculpture, Terra-cotta sculpture, Terra-cotta sculpture, Greek
Hellmut Sichtermann has written: 'Griechische Vasen in Unteritalian aus der Sammlung Jatta in Ruvo ...' 'Sophokles' -- subject(s): Art, Greek Portrait sculpture, Greek Sculpture, Portrait sculpture, Greek, Sculpture, Greek 'Winckelmann in zwanzigsten Jahrhundert' -- subject(s): Appreciation, Criticism and interpretation
Hans Georg. Niemeyer has written: 'Promachos' -- subject(s): Athena (Greek deity), Greek Sculpture, Sculpture, Greek
Greek and Roman sculpture were similar. During the period of the Roman Republic Roman sculpture was portraiture (busts). With the establishment of rule by emperors the Romans adopted full body statues modelled on the Hellenistic style of the Greeks. The Romans adopted the three Greek orders (styles) for building columns: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian.