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Emmanuele Villanis wk 1880-1920 PHRYNE
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- Emmanuele Villanis
- height 25 in.
- 63.5 cm
brown patinated bronze, titled PHRYNE and signed E. Villanis with the Alberto Vignes foundry seal and letter J.P/2436
Catalogue Note
Phyrne was famous in antiquity as the embodiment of female loveliness. According to tradition, she was the inspiration for several of the greatest works of art including the sculptor Praxitele's Aphrodite of Knidos and the Aphrodite Anadymene painted by Apelles and Jean-Leon Gerome's Phryné devant l'Areopage, painted in 1861.