Praxiteles of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue. Whil
The Resting Satyr
Hermes bearing the child Dionysos, Archaeological Museum of Olympia
The Louvre Apollo Sauroctonos
Leconfield Head at Petworth House
Phryne was an ancient Greek hetaira. Born Mnesarete, she was from Thespiae in Boeotia, but seems to have lived most of her life in Athens. She apparently grew up poor, but became one of the richest wo
Praxiteles
…various famous statuary types from the period still exist. A supposed relationship between Praxiteles and his beautiful model, the Thespian courtesan Phryne, has inspired speculation and interpretation in works of art ranging from painting (Gérôme) to comic opera (Saint-Saëns) to shadow play (Donnay). Some…
Roman marble copy of the Aphrodite of Knidos, for which Phryne is said to have been the model. The head and arms are restored. Museo Nazionale Romano.
Portrait head often identified as Hypereides. Copy of a late-4th or early 3rd-century BC Greek original.
Phryne, by José Frappa [fr], before 1903
Phryne Before the Areopagus by Jean-Léon Gérôme, c. 1861