Aphrodite Analysis

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Aphrodite, known as venus in Roman mythology is the Goddess of love. Beside her on a dolphin is one of her children, Cupid, the god of love. This marble sculpture was created in the first century AD in Rome after the greek original in the 4th century BC. The statue carries messages of religion, culture, history and style of the roman people.
The marble statue had small cracks all over. Aphrodite’s right arm and three of her fingers from the left hand were broken off along with Cupid’s left leg. Several pieces of the sculpture were broken off but put back together before reaching the Carlos Museum such as the tail of the dolphin, Cupid’s right arm and foot, and Aphrodite’s heel and nose. The Carlos Museum reattached her head and her left pinky using what looks like clay. While the repairs from the museum was not very noticeable the previous repairs appeared to be just connected through adhesives considering you could see all the rough cracks. There is a slightly darker circle inside her broken arm, it is almost too perfect to look like a mistake. It seems that the limbs had some kind of support system. The statue must have been a valued object considering it stayed pretty well preserved for something created …show more content…
This could mean that it was a statue placed in the home of someone of higher class, power or it might have been put in a place of worship. The entire statue consisted of rounded shapes and curves. Though the statue is made of marble, either due to paint or time its color has turned a light brown with some orange undertone. Normally when making a marble sculpture it is subtractive and in this case Aphrodite is subtractive and so is cupid on the dolphin but it appears that the two were joined making it also additive. You can tell the dolphin was attached to Aphrodite because there is a rectangular cut where the dolphins tail meets Aphrodite’s

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