Venus Genetrix
sculpture by Callimachus
Also known as: “Aphrodite Genetrix”
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- In Callimachus
…have attributed to Callimachus the Venus Genetrix (or Aphrodite Genetrix), a Roman replica of which is in the Louvre. He has also been linked with a series of reliefs of dancing maenads, such as the Roman copy now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, which are notable…
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