Venus Kallipiga ( Italian: Venere Callipigia , from Greek .φροδίτη Καλλίπυγος , Russian Aphrodite with beautiful buttocks [2] ) - the name of one of the antique marble statues of Venus found in the Golden House of Nero . The statue was part of the collection of the Dukes of Farnese and was transferred to the National Archaeological Museum of Naples , where it is still preserved.
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| Venus Kallipig . Around the 2nd century AD [one] | ||
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Content
- 1 Description
- 2 History
- 3 In culture
- 4 See also
- 5 notes
- 6 Literature
Description
Archaeologists have classified the statue as a work of the New Attic school . The goddess Venus is depicted dressed in a long tunic, the hem of which she picked up and holds with her right hand against her chest, and with her left she raised to the level with her head, so that the entire lower part of her body and legs appear naked.
History
According to Athenaeus , this statue repeats the statue that was in Syracuse and dedicated to Venus by two sisters.
“In those old days, people were so obsessed with voluptuousness that even the temple of Aphrodite Kallipige (Divnozada) was erected, and this is how it happened. One peasant had two beautiful daughters. Once they argued which of them had a prettier ass; and to resolve the dispute, went on a long road. There was a young man walking there, the son of a respectable and wealthy parent, and they pounced in front of him, and he, looking, gave preference to the eldest. And so he fell in love with her, that, having returned to the city, he fell ill, fell ill and told about everything to his younger brother. He immediately went to the named village and, seeing the girls, he passionately fell in love, but to a smaller one. The father persuaded them to take more eminent wives, but without achieving anything, he went to the village, agreed with the father of those girls, brought them to the city and passed them off as sons. The townspeople called these girls "divine-assed", as Kerkid Megalopolsky says in Yambakh: that there was a couple in Siracusa de "Beautiful Sisters here." These sisters, having received great wealth, built a temple in honor of Aphrodite and called it Kallipiga, as Archelaus tells about it in his Yambakh. ”
- Athenaeus, "Feast of the Sages."
St. Clement of Alexandria in his work “Exhortation to the Gentiles” reports that the inhabitants of Syracuse worshiped Aphrodite under the name Kallipigi [3] . In 1836 , Caesar Famen claimed that the statue acquired a dark shade due to the kisses that cover it with visitors to the Royal Museum in Naples [4] . There are copies of the statue of Venus Kallipigi in Russia , in particular, in the Pavlovsky park ( Pavlovsk ) [5] , as part of the sculptural composition of the Grand Cascade ( Peterhof ) [6] and in the Catherine Park ( Tsarskoye Selo ) [7] .
In Culture
- Vincenzo Cartari , “Images of Ancient Gods and Tales of Them.”
- Jean de Lafontaine , Aphrodite Cullipig.
- Georges Brassens , Venus Callipigue.
- Harry Harrison , "Bill is the Hero of the Galaxy."
See also
- Venus with a mirror
- Venus Squatting
- Pits of Venus
- Heart symbol
Notes
- ↑ Venere callipige - Sito ufficiale del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (Italian) (unavailable link) . Cir.campania.beniculturali.it. Date of treatment July 29, 2015. Archived January 1, 2014.
- ↑ From κάλλος (“beauty”) + πυγή (“buttocks”)
- ↑ The ABC of Faith.
- ↑ The Royal Museum at Naples: Plate III: Venus Callipyge . Sacred-texts.com. Date of treatment July 29, 2015.
- ↑ The official website of the Pavlovsk State Museum-Reserve - “Sculpture of the Pavlovsk Park”.
- ↑ The official website of the Peterhof State Museum-Reserve - "Venus Kallipiga, Jupiter and Diskobol will shine with new gilding."
- ↑ Official site of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Reserve - Museums - Palaces and parks - Catherine Park - Cameron Baths - “Hanging Garden. Ramp ".
Literature
- Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, 1984. Taste and the Antique Cat. 86.
- Dericksen Brinkerhoff, review of Aphrodite Kallipygos by Gosta Saflund and Peter M. Fraser - American Journal of Archeology, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Jan., 1965), pp. 78-79.
- Laurentino García y García, Luciana Jacobelli, Louis Barré, 2001. Museo Segreto. With a Facsimile edition of Herculanum et Pompéi. Recueil général des peintures, bronzes, mosaïques ... (1877). (Pompei: Marius Edizioni) Eric M. Moormann, On-line Bryn Mawr Classical Review 20 .