Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art had a magnificent new treasure from ancient Rome to show its visitors this week: a smooth-limbed, white marble statue of Aphrodite, shown startled at her ...

a 2,400-year-old statue of a woman believed to be Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. The statue, which stands seven-and-a-half-feet tall and weighs more than half a ton, had reigned since 1988 ...

One of the sculptures is a striking 2-metre-high statue of the goddess of love, Aphrodite, sitting on a base depicting the ...

Statue fragments of other deities including ... During excavations, two marble heads, believed to belong to Aphrodite ...

As the goddess of love, beauty and sexual pleasure ... very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in antiquity.