Esquiline Venus
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The Esquiline Venus is a smaller-than-life-size Roman nude marble sculpture of a female in sandals and a diadem headdress. There is no definitive scholarly consensus on either its provenience or its s
0 Vénus de l'Esquilin Musei Capitolini Rome
A Sculptor's Model, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1877
Diadumenè, by Edward Poynter, 1884
Another torso of this type (Louvre)
Diadumenè
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Diadumenè is an oil painting by the British artist Edward Poynter, from 1884. It is held in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, in Exeter.
Esquiline Venus
…reconstructions in the decade after its discovery. Chief among these are Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's A Sculptor's Model (1877) and Edward Poynter's Diadumenè (1884). These both portrayed the statue's model binding her hair with a strip of fabric (as with the statue type diadumenos) in preparation for modelling…
Arthur Stockdale Cope Edward Poynter 1911