Ran into her in Danton's Death . [From Wikimedia Commons] *** The Venus Callipyge , also known as the Aphrodite Kallipygos ( Greek : Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος ) or the Callipygian Venus , all literally meaning "Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks", [2] is an Ancient Roman marble statue, thought to be a copy of an older Greek original. In an example of anasyrma , it depicts a partially draped woman, raising her light peplos to uncover her hips and buttocks, and looking back and down over her shoulder, perhaps to evaluate them. The subject is conventionally identified as Venus ( Aphrodite ), though it may equally be a portrait of a mortal woman. The marble statue extant today dates to the late 1st century BC. [3] The lost Greek original on which it is based is thought to have been bronze , and to have been executed around 300 BC, towards the beginning of the Hellenistic era . [3] The provenance of the marble copy is unknown, bu...
