Sujet

The Castellani Collection in the British Museum - bronze head of Venus, 1873. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Castellani Collection in the British Museum - bronze head of Venus, 1873. 'The recent purchase of the Castellani collection of art-antiquities by the trustees of the British Museum has added to the public property of this kind some things of considerable value for their beauty or curiosity. Among those which may be esteemed beautiful is the bronze head of Aphrodite or Venus, now said to have been found in Armenia. This is of heroic size, with the back and crown of the head partly battered in and wrenched away, and with the eye-sockets empty; but for the rest, presenting a front view quite unimpaired, with nose and mouth perfect and uninjured. We give an illustration of this noble head of the Goddess of Love'. The Satala Aphrodite was first acquired in Istanbul by a Greek antiquities dealer called Savas Kougioumtsoglou who passed it to another dealer, Photiades who took it to Rome where it was sold to Castellani. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A12_481

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

9,3Mo (840,8Ko) / 13,4cm x 17,4cm / 1584 x 2060 (300dpi)

Mots clés

face religious arts religion metal body bodies sculpture bronze art British museum archaeology collection British Museum century archaeological Britain find bust newspapers press print artefact concept Venus archeology artifact B&W goddess engraved engraving Aphrodite 19th century black & white black and white B W Ancient Roman Ancient Rome nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown Goddess of Love Alessandro Castellani Castellani Alessandro 19th-century Castellani Collection The Illustrated London News